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THE MYSTERY FINISHED 



THE NEGRO HAS A SOUL. 



HIS NORMAL RELATION IS THAT OF A SERVANT OP TRIBUTE TO 
SHEM AND JAPHETH. THE NEGRO IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE 
STATE, BUT A MEMBER OP THE CHURCH BY DIVINE AP- 
POINTMENT. THE NEGRO IS ONLY MADE A CITIZEN 

WHILE THE " TWO WITNESSES ARE DEAD " 

THESE ARE MOSES AND CHRIST, CIVIL 
LAW AND ECCLESIASTIC OR SOCIAL 
LAW. THIS DEATH IS FOR FOR- 
TY-TWO MONTHS, OR FOR 
THREE AND HALF YEARS. 



" The sun is in the Heavens and yet a horror of preat darkness corers the 

world." 

" Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? He that re- 
proveth God, let him answer it,"— Jobxl:v2 xl:2. 



Copyright secured according to law. 



MEMPHIS : 

PUBLIC LEDGER BOOK AND JOB PRINTIN(; ESTABLISHMENT, 

1868. 



EEEATA. 

It is due the publishers of this little work to state that its typography 
is more accurate than could have been reasonably expected, since the 
distance that separat<^d the author and publisher made it necessary to 
use the mail as the only means of communication between the parties 
for a correct proof The general sense at which the author has aimed 
has been kept throughout the whole. There are a few grammatical errors 
which the readers can easily correct. 

The author would have preferred a more liberal use of large caps 
in beginning important words, and in making quotations, 3^et this was 
not expedient, and does not effect the sense. In the use of proper names, 
and in making quotations a few mistakes occur that mars the sense, 
and the most important of these deserve to be pointed out. 

Page 20, 10th line, bottom, Isaac should be Ishmael. Page 24, 26th 
hne, top, David should be Daniel. Page 33, 23d line, top, Cainain should 
be Ca/mari; same page, 25th line, Cbwmw should be Canaan. Page 35, 
10th hne, top, our proselyte should be one proselyte. Page 40, 15th line, 
bottom, 556 hy 1744 should be added to 1744. Page 41, 10th line, top, 
Ex should be Er. Page 44, 13th line, top, Othdal should be Othneal. 
Ehu should be Ehud. Same page, 20th line, bottom, Decemveres 
should be Decemviri's ; Triumvini' s should be Triumvire's. Page 55, 
3d hne, top, then should be there. Page 59, 9th line, top, divine should 
be divide. Page 58, 20th line, bottom, Isaac should be Israel. Page 
63, 11th line, bottom, willingly should be wittingly Page 66, 10th line, 
bottom, 'Thou shalt not suffer," should read, "Thou shaltsuffer." Page 
77, 13th line, top, Joshua Saul, should be Joshua Soiile. Page ^&, 18th 
line, top, creatures should be creations ; same line, they should be 
there. Page 107, 13th line, bottom, jfAgrg should be thine. Page 123. 
8th line, bottom, leave out the tribe of. Page 126, 19th line, bottom, 
Judah should read Judas. 

The author would take this occasion to speak to that small class of 
minds who take an interest in the recondite questions contained in this 
little work. The greater dilligence employed in attempting to compre- 
hend the subject, the better will you be prepared to appreciate a more 
elaborate presentation of (he same, when the proper time arrives— that 
ti^me is not yet. Would you learn, you must study with great care. 
Ihis book may be had of the book-sellers of Memphis. Price, $1. 

THE AUTHOR. 



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theIiystery finishe 



THE NEGRO HAS A SOUL. 



HIS NORMAL RELATION IS THAT OP A SERVANT OF TRIBUTE TO 
SIIEM AND JAPIIETIL THE NEGRO IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE ' 
fiTATE, BUT A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH BY DIVINE AP- 
JIENT. THE NECIRO IS ONLY MADE A CITIZEN 
WHILE THE "two WITNTi^SSES ARE DEAD " — 
THESE ARE MOSES AND CHRIST, CIVIL 
LAW AND ECCLESIASTIC OR SOCIAL 
LAW. THIS DEATH IS FOR FOR- 
TY-TWO MONTHS, OR FOR ._ 
THREE AND HALF YEARS. 




" The suii is in the Heavens and yet a horror of great darkness covers the 

«<irld." 

" Shall he that contcndeth with the Almighty instruct him? He that re- 
proveth God, let him answer it."— Job xl:v2 xl:2. 



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MEMPHIS: 



PWBtlC LEDGER BOOK AND JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. 

1868. 






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PREFACE. 



This Kttle Avt)rk is presented to the public as the sj'uopsi.s of a 
larger Avork, written by the author during this great civil war in the 
Japhetic Israel. 

It is based upon God's symbols; keeping up the transfers from 
one to anotlier, from Adam down to the tribes, or States, of this South 
land. 

The entire history of Israel was given by God to Moses in the 

Mount. The three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, move as the 

Trinity in the Godhead. The wives of these move with the Church, or 

soul, as Israel has moved. The twelve tribes are representatives of 

human laws, as tluy would mix the "Nchash," or " Nackhash," with 

the laws of God. 

The tribes of this South land are given to draw the distinction 
between the laws of God and the laws of Nature, or the " Nahash ;" 
and they finish The Mystery. 

No nation, no prince, can legislate wisely, that does not understand 
the difference between these, as God demonstrates them himself. 

The reader must study in order to learn the symbolic mtaning of 
names and things, and how to keep up the transfer of one to the other. 
In this outline, the author has avoided speculation, and deals only with 

facts. 

None need inquire who the author is. His history is so obscure 
that he would hardly be suspected by his neighbors of appearing before 
the public as an author, to enlighten that public. He has never preached 
a sermon, and never filled any public station in civil life, and never 
was a lecturer on anj' subject, and never went anywhere, and never saw 
the capital of a single State in this land. These thoughts are 
fully dedicated to all writers on prophec}'. 

THE AUTHOR. 



THE MYSTERY FmiSHEl). 



''For it is written: Abraham had two .sons: the one by a bond- 
maid, the other by a free-woman." 

"But he who was of the bond woman was born afier the flesli: but 
he of the free-woman was by promise Which thinjis arc an allegory, 
for these are the two covenants." — Gal. iv, 22d and 2-lth, 

Gocl has ,^iven the world one Book, and has also given 
the world a history as the exponent of the sense of that 
"Book. 

If this Book tells to man that he has two natures, the 
•one as natural, and the other as supernatural, it also tells 
him that both these natures shall be brought under the 
reign of the laws of the Creator, which are given for the 
government of both the natural and the supernatural man. 
This Book teaches not only how man will act in following 
the laws of his nature, as the natural, in both departments 
of that nature ; but also how God, the Creator, will act in 
•over-ruling that nature, and subjecting it to his own laws. 
It tells the times when, the manner how, and the place 
where, this will be done. 

If this Book talks of two cherubims seated u])on either 
end of the seat of mercy, it is itself the two cherubims. 
Moses and twelve patriarchs make one cherubim ; Christ 
and twelve apostles make the other. If these are looking 
into the veiled ark, over which the wings of the cherubim 
meet, so is the Book veiled in the middle by four great 
prophets and twelve minor ones. 

Four books of law and twelve patriarchs make the 
•body : four books of gospel, with twelve apostles, make the 
soul to the body. 

These two will unite upon the truths taught by four 
great prophets and twelve less ones, and then w^ill "the 
Avorld become a living soul," and the angel will fly, "having 
the everlasting gospel to preach," 

These two cherubims are called bv various names in 



6 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

the Book. They arc tlie '^ two witnesses." Tliey are tlic 
"two anointed ones." They are the " two olive branches." 
Peace to the world dwells alone between these olive branches. 
They arc Sinai and Jerusalem. They are God's two spies, 
Joshua and Caleb, sent out to watch a wicked'Avorld, that 
follows the laws of the beast, or laws of nature, and not the 

laAVS of Clod. 

These two spies have made a good report, and say, 
•'they are fully able to take the world," and they will do it, 
reo-ardless of any different report made by other parties- 
concerning Anek, or Amelek, or Og, or all other giants in 

the land. 

These witnesses, as the laws of God for his creature man. 
will add the "plagues of the Book to the world, until men 
cease to mend it, and take it as it is." These hold the 
sword, and will guard the way to the "tree of knowledge," 
which, when man reaches, it will be found to be simple- 
obedience to the laws of the Creator, Avithout the smallest 
amendment from the laws of nature. 

No other ark than this can ride a world safely over the- 
waste of waters, and bring it into port. This ark has a 
lower, and an upper, and a middle story, and it is pitched 
within and without. It looks to both the outer and the 
inner man, in his civil and soul laws. These witnesses of" 
God, like their heads, Moses and Christ, refuse to be made a 
king, according to the laws of the natural man. Pharaoh's 
daughter will plead in vain for Moses. The Israel of laAV, 
from Japheth, like that of law from Shem, may try by force 
to elevate the law of Christ, standing for "the Christ," to 
the supreme power, it will be of no use. God will fill his 
own types by his own laws. 

Various names, or things, ai'e used to represent thes 
laws, or witnesses, of God. They are called moon and sun. 
They are called husband and bride. They are called Jeru- 
salem. They are called Abraham and Melkezedek. They 
are called body and soul. riiey are called law and gospel, 
civil and Church. The book that teaches them is called 
Ilachel. As the literal Eachel stole the literal ffodsof Laban, 
so the Book Eachel will steal all the gods out of the world. 
If the tw^o witnesses be named, the one is Benjamin, the 
other is Joseph. If the literal Benjamin has ten literal sons 
to represent law, these are the ten commandments of the 
law of Moses for the bodily man. If the literal Joseph has- 
two sons, as Ephraim and Manassah, these are law and 
gospel. These are the children over which Rachel Aveeps, 
and she never can be comforted while these are not. 

As sure as Joseph was made liead of the "red-headed 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 7 

dragon " of Eg^'pt, and brought all his brethren to him, so 
sure Avill the laws of God, for which Joseph stands, bring all 
the kings and kingdoms of the world, for which his brethren 
stand, to the laws of Christ, upon whom they met. 

Let the dragon of Egypt pursue. Let the beast of 
Babylon carry into captivity. Let "the false prophets " cry 
" crucify him." God will give us a king to serve us accord- 
ing to our liking. Let the archers shoot at Joseph, standing 
for the laws of God. " His bow will abide in strength, being 
upheld by the mighty God of Jacob." 

These laws of God met in Moses, born of Levi, as civil 
and ceremonial. They met on David, the seventh son of 
Jesse, the type of Christ, born of the tribe of Judah, as civil 
and gospel law. They met on the Christ, born of the tribe 
of Judah, as civil and gospel, and he fulfilled the whole law, 
as set in David, as a union of the two in one ; but not as 
subjecting the world to his reign, as David took possession 
of all the land promised him in Canaan, as the type of the 
Avorld to be subjected to the reign of •• the Christ." This 
remains yet to be done. 

God has two sons to represent his laws. These are 
Christ and Moses; Joseph and Benjamin. 

Christ is before Moses ; yet the law of Moses for the 
body, is before the law of Christ for the soul. Benjamin is 
before Joseph, in whom the double laws meet. The same is 
true in reference to Shem and Japheth. Japheth, to whom 
gospel is given, is older than Shem, to whom law was given. 
As in the elder, the double laws are to meet, the younger, 
in either case, standing alone, as civil law ])recedes the elder. 
The first born, in either case, is by the deeds (5f the law, and 
is of the bond-woman. The last born is by promise, and is 
the first begotten, though not the first born. 

God said to Moses: "Say ye to Pharaoh, Israel is my 
son, even my first born ; let my son go, that he may serve 
me." This first born son was Moses and twelve patri- 
archs, the literal sons of the literal Jacob. The first begot- 
ten son is Christ, with' twelve apostles. The first born is 
the literal man, made of the dust. The first begotten is the 
breathing of God into this dust. These two shall become 
one, as man, made of two natures, is one. That the laAV of 
God, as given by Moses for the civil man, and the gospel, as 
given by Christ, for the soul of man, shall unite in a literal 
nation, literally descended from Japheth, is the decree of 
God. These laws make the kingdom of God in contrast 
with the kingdom of men. 

The waU'hmen shall come to see eye to eye. "There 
shall be one shepherd and one fold." The two literal tribes, 



8 THE MVSTEllV FlMSilED. 

Itclwocii wliicii Jerusalem Avas built. asBenjamin and Judah, 
jirc law and tijospel. The Christ came between Benjamin, as 
law. and Judah, as gospel. 

The laws that met in the literal Jerusalem, met on him, 
iind he became the substitute of the literal house. " Destroy 
this temple, and I will build it in three daj's."' These laws 
are that Jerusalem that is to '-become the praise of the 
whole earth.'" 

The laws of God, as his two Avitnesses, given to tbe 
Israel from Shem, not only taught the laws by the use of 
words, but every act in both had a symbolic meaning, which 
stands as a prophetic sign, to be repeated in gospel, Israel 
given to Japheth. 

These laws stand to each other as type and anti-type, 
€ach of which had to be repeated in the land in which 
Japheth was to be '• enlarged over Shem.'' America is the 
land in Avhich Japheth is enlarged over Shem. When Noah 
said: '^Blessed is Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant," 
direct reference was had to the literal Israel, the descend- 
iints of Jacob, as God's t3^pes to whom the laws and the 
prophets were to be given. Canaan, the son of Ham, was 
also the type of the servant of tribute, when Noah said : 
" God will enlarge Japheth ; he shall dwell in the tents of 
Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant." 

Direct reference was had to the land of America, which 
Shem first held in the person of IJed Esau, the brother of 
Jacob. This Esau, or Shem, was a man of the "quiver and 
the bow.'' lie hunted venison. He scorned his birthriij:ht. 
He lived in tents. When it is said : •• Canaan shall be his 
servant," respect is had to literal Canaan as the type, and 
also the law of Moses, as given in the land of Canaan. The 
two covenants set in Abraham, were predicated upon the 
two prophecies of Xoah. The first was of the bond-woman, 
or was bound by the law of the literal man. 

The second was of the free-woman, and would be, by 
choice, under the Divine guidance. The first covenant was 
with Abram, which had Canaan, the son of Ham, for the 
servant of tribute. The second was with Abra-Ham, which 
changed the son Canaan to Ham, the father of Canaan. 

The law which changed Abram to Abraham, is a law of 
faith in God and his word, both in reference to the civil and 
soul law. It is the admission that the Creator knows what 
is best for the creature, without respect to the laws of the 
beast or nature. If the one savs : '' Thou shalt have no a'ods 
before me," the other says : "Ye must be born again." If 
the one says : " Thou shalt not kill, nor steal, nor covet thy 
neighbor's servant," the other says : " Blessed are the peace- 



TIIK MYSTERY I-'I NISFI KD. J> 

makers :'" •- Bies-n'<l are llio meek :'" '• Servants, be obedient 
to your masters." The laws of tlie natural man rise up in 
opposition to these laws of God, and say : '• Foree is king ; 
thou shalt kill ; thou shalt steal; to the vietors belong the 
spoils; all men are equal/' ete. The natural law of the soul 
says : "Do religion : the fruits of the body may atone for 
the sin of the soul. It asks, in reference to the law of God : 
'• How can these things be?'' Between these two thieves, as 
natural laws, the Christ is crucified. The law of Clod is the 
word of God. Whether these laws are made flesh, in the 
person of" the Christ," or in a nation of "the Christ,"' they 
will be spoken of as one and the same. The coming of the 
laws is tlie coming of Christ. 

As the Israel of law, from vShem. made up of twelve 
patriarchs and ]\Ioses, as the law-giver killed the second son. 
as Christ and twelve apostles, so have the twelve tribes of 
law, in this land of Japheth. killed the twelve of both law 
and gospel. Both say : " By our law he ought to die." The 
work at which we are aiming, is to set forth, by this latter 
Israel, what is that symbolic sense, as principles of human 
laws, that God attached to the twelve tribes of Israel. No 
king, nor emperor, nor re])ublic. can legislate wisely without 
a knowledge of these facts. 

With the twelve tribes in Shem. God sealed the Book. 
With the twelve tribes in Japheth, he has " unsealed it," 
and "finished his mystery." 

There has never been one mistake nor one accident, down 
that line of Israel which God selected to prove to his crea- 
ture man, his ris-ht to rule him. The entire history of lit- 
eral Israel was a type of something to follow after. The 
])rophets tell of things to come, in the history of Israel. It 
follows, fi'om hence, that every prophecy has its predicate 
upon the literal acts of the literal Israel. 

The acts of both the Israels, from Shem as the type, and 
that of Japhet as the anti type, were each acted out by the 
literal parties, as recorded in the book of Genesis. This 
book was given by God to Moses in the Mount. It is a 
prophecy, in action, of thecntire history of Israel, from the 
first Adam to the crowning of the second Adam "Lord of 
the world." There is not one word of tradition in the 
book. It is too contradictory to be traditional. It is too 
exact in its application to IsraeFs history not to be pro- 
phetic. 

All the prophets speak of things future, as having 
alread\' passed, or as passing at^he time in which they are 
mentioned. The same facts apply to the books of Genesis 
and Job. These belong to the entire history of Israel, with- 



10 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

out respect to the literal account assumed as a basis upon' 
which the prophecies are founded. The things written by 
Moses in these books, were written to be understood in the 
latter days of the Japhetic Israel. There is not one mistake 
in all of God's book. There is nothing wanting, and nothing- 
too much. Babylon has confused the world long enough ; 
man must come to Jerusalem to learn. 

When God said to Moses : " See thou make all things 
after the pattern showed thee in the Mount," it was because- 
that that w^as made was good. 

It would be about as easy to find a mistake in the phys- 
ical world, or in the celestial heavens, as to find one in God's- 
book. These, together with the moral w^orld, are all formed 
in one mould, and the one is given to explain the other. 

The question to be presented is one of vast proportions, 
and the slightest glance at the most prominent points is all 
that can be indulged in this running outline. The laws of 
God are made separate and distinct from the laws of man, 
by those typical characters wdiich God used as the re^^resent- 
atives of laws. Man is a trinity. The God-head is a trinity. 
Israel is a trinity. God works with a trinity; first, the two- 
halves, and then the whole. In order to reach the truth, 
the distinct ideas attached to the trinities of God, must be 
understood. Cain, Abel, Seth, are ideas to be applied to 
Israel's hisiory. The same is true in reference to Shem, 
Ham, Japheth ; or Abraham, Isaac, Jacob ; or Saul, David, 
Solomon; or Noah, Daniel,. Job ; or Father, Son, and Holy 
(Jhost; or Law, Gospel and Millennial Kingdoms. These 
are called Kingdom, Power, Glory. These are trinities, 
because of the distinct ideas they are given to illustrate, 
either as laws of God, or of the natural man. 

Three times does Balaam, the prophet of Baal, or the 
natural man, move his locality, to curse Israel. There are 
three invitations to the great supper. It is at the last that 
men are compelled to come in. This is because Gfod finishes 
his demonstration to man, that he will rule him by his own 
laws. Three times is Christ templed. Three go in the 
furnace, etc. This idea is carried out in the natural world. 
The moon, the sun, the earth. As the sun and moon give 
value to the earth, so will law and gospel make this earth 
as the New Jerusalem. Asia, Africa, Europe, are but a 
different form of presenting Shem, Ham, Japheth. The two 
united, as Asia and Europe, are Shem and Japheth, or law 
and gospel. These are the two to put the garment upon 
their shoulders, and walk backward, and cover the naked- 
ness of a, drunken world. 

As the Christ came in between these, in the center of 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 11 

the Eastern world, and upon \vIiom the hiws of Clod met, so 
has the nation of •• the Christ '' to bring forth "the fruits of 
the kini;-dom,"' met in the center of the AVestern world, 
between Sheni and Japheth; and Japheth has taken posses- 
sion of Shem, not only in literal fact, but also in the law^s 
for both body and soul, civil and church, which Shem 
rejected ; and hence Japheth is, in a double sense, ^" enlarged 
over Shem." 

This enlargement is first w^ith an Israel of law, standing 
for twelve patriarchs, or the body, or civil law of the body ; 
and secondly, with a nation, not only answering to the 
twelve as law, but also answering to the twelve apostles as 
gospel, or as adding the soul to the body. These latter twelve 
will tell the world what is both law and gospel. 

The genealogy is perfect when the diverging lines meet 
and agree in one. Let this idea be clearl}^ understood. 
Cain is the literal, or bodih', man, and God's law of the body. 
Clod requires he should offer the fruits of the ground. The 
genealogy of Cain sets the world's civil or political govern- 
ments down the line of Israel, closing with Lamech. Abel 
is '• the Christ," or soul, of the world, and his faith is the 
law of Cod, in reference to "the Christ." Seth, who came 
in the stead of Abel, stands to represent the soul, or church 
of the soul, and his line closes with Lamech, the father of 
Noah. When these two lines meet, in literal fact, according 
to the symbols of each, then is the genealogy perfect, and 
the laws in which they meet will make the ark to save the 
world. While the two lines of Cain and Seth are given to 
represent the soul and body of man, or civil and church laws, 
the two lines from Shem and Japheth are both political in 
reference to their genealogy. The line of Shem is the same 
in number with that of Seth, and closes with Meshech. 
The line of Japheth is the same in number with that of Cain, 
and has Tiras following his Meshech. There is no accident 
in this arrangement, nor in anvthing else written in God's 
Hook. 

The land of Meshech, from Shem, was the most east- 
ern ])art of his land, as Asia, which was, doubtless, once 
North America. The land of Meshech, from Japheth, was 
the western part of his land, as Europe. These two, as 
Meshech from Shem, and Meshech from Japheth, have 
met in this land, and the Meshech from Japheth has driven 
out the Meshech from Shem, and he is enlarged over him. 
As these facts are literally fulfilled, so the literal fiicts con- 
cerning the Lamech from Cain, as the civil law, and the 
Lamech from Seth, as the chm^ch law, will be seen to be one, 
as Adam and Eve were one. Truely does Eli-as."" the God- 

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servant, "restore all thinics." 



12 TIIK MYSTERY FINISHED. 

'• I am tlie first and the last," means that those symbols 
with which God started, are the same with which lie closes. 
He changes not. The Bible is as round as the world. The 
Old and ISTew Testaments are one. They are body and soul. 
ISTot a change between Moses and Christ, but David, the 
king of the gospel dispensation, made it before Christ came. 
Moses and David were the civil laws of the same people. 
David changed the ceremonial to gospel. David never oifered 
a literal sacrifice, such as Moses used. His sacrifices are of 
the heart — the inner, and not the outer man. David, as civil 
and soul laws, is the same as Joseph, or as the three patri- 
archs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It was not David that 
killed Goliah, representing all heathen political governments. 
It was God, using David as his type. It was not David that 
put Uriah in the front of the battle. It was God, using 
David as his prophet, to show how he would kill all human 
governments for the Church, that he might get Bathsheba 
to bring forth Solomon, the eighth, and last, and highest 
type of Christ. It was not David that had seven wives and 
ten concubines. It was God representing himself by seven 
churches, and ten nations out of which they were to come. 
It was not the literal Solomon that had three hundred con- 
cubines and seven hundred wives. It was God rej^resenting 
his own actions by Solomon, and showing how he would 
take all the political nations and all the churches out of the 
world. Nothing is by accident. It is not Abraham, but 
'' God the Father," that has Hagar andlshmael to represent 
the ceremonial law, and Sarah and Isaac to stand for gospel. 
It is Isaac, as God the Son, that has one wife, Rebecca, and 
AVhose volition is consulted about becomino; a wife. Rebecca 
is the gospel church, in contrast with Hagar and Sarah, as 
laws of the church. It is Jacob, as God the Holy Gliost, 
combining Father and Son, that has two wives — Leah and 
Rachel — and their two maid-servants for wives, to set forth 
the principles of the Divine Government. Until one single 
church is found to agree with a civil government, and both 
are the seventh, to agree with David, the seventh son, or 
Avith Joseph, the seventh type of Christ ; with the law- 
givers of both, out of Judah ; or "from between his feet," in 
the Japhetic Israel, the same as the type set in Shem, 
together with a score of other positive tacts, it will be in 
vain to look for the husband and the bride, according to 
God's prophetic truth. 

Following God's facts and God's fulfilment are the only 
guides to lead to this result. 

The characters of the 'Now Testament are to those of the 
Old as the literal seed of Jacob are to the spiritual Jacob, as 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 13 

" God the Holy Ghost." If the one is born by natural laws, 
the other is begotten by the Holy Ghost, and yet all the nat- 
ural laws are observed in those thus begotton. They are 
not only soul, but they are body and soul. The twelve 
apostles are to the twelve patriarchs as soul to body. If 
the twelve in one case are represented by one sister, as Di- 
nah standing for the church, or soul of the whole, so the twelve 
in the other are represented by one, as Paul standing as the 
summary of the whole. If a king, as Saul of Benjamin, 
stands to represent the first — saying God had no right to 
transfer the government to Judah or David — he finds his 
representative, as "Saul of Tarsus,'' persecuting unto death. 

If there were fifteen patriarchs, the regular twelve, the 
two of Joseph, and the daughter Dinah standing as the sun 
amid these signs of the zodiac, the same is true in reference 
to the apostles. These are the twelve and the two set for 
apostles, Justus and Mathias, and Paul standing for the 
whole, as to him was committed the care of all the churches. 

If the tribe Levi stood for the church among the tribes, 
so when it is transferred to Judah, as gospel, the first evan- 
gelist, as Matthew is named Levi, to show how the transfer 
was made. To Joseph among the patriarchs the birth- 
right was given, and upon him God's laws unite. So the 
Joseph the son of Jacob of the Xew Testament is the reputed 
father of Christ, upon whom the laws of God met. The 
Mary, the literal mother of the Christ, is the re})resentative 
of the embodied church, to bring forth the nation of " the 
Christ," which is to take the laws of God, It is not only 
through Mary, as the harlot Eahab, or Naamah, or ISTaomi, 
but also through Elizabeth, as Ruth, or England, who stands 
for the mother of John, the forerunner, but it will be through 
Andrew, as the first apostle in this land, born of the tribe of 
.ludah. There is no need to run in advance of God's types 
in Shem, and their fulfillment in Japheth. 

The Simeon of the New Testament is the Simeon of the 
Old. The tribe of Simeon, the second son of Jacob, is the 
literal tribe to represent force in civil government. If 
ileuben, the first son, stands for the first Israel from Shem, 
as in Palestine, Simeon, the second, will stand for the second 
or forcible Israel, in Japheth, as in Rome. If Reuben, the 
first, stands for the first colony of this land, as Virginia, 
Simeon, the second, will stand for the second, as the Plymouth 
colony. Joseph takes Simeon and binds him, in the pres- 
ence of all his brethren, saying : •• Bring me Benjamin, and I 
will release Simeon," the literal sense of which is : Bring me 
the law of Moses, and this forcible Simeon will leave the 
world. Moses, when blessing the tribes, leaves ou^ Simeon. 



14 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

'vSimeoii, as force having been used as God's whip of cords, to 
drive Israel to demonstrate the meaning of God's dual laws 
for man, is no longer needed. VYlien Simeon, as force has 
done this, as these laws will stand to the world as the Christ, 
uj^on whom they meet — this Simeon w^ill say : " Now, Lord, 
lettest thou thy servant depart In peace, for mine eyes have 
seen thy salvation."' That salvation is Moses, for the civil 
man, and Christ, for the church, or soul of man. 

The tribes of the literal Israel divide at the tribe of 
Gad, which is the seventh, and is the tribe to set the second 
half of this Japhetic Israel. The doubting Thomas is the 
apostle to set the division between the twelve apostles. Use 
■will be had for every fact in this Japhetic Israel given to 
"Unseal the Book." 

As Moses was a sign to the literal Israel, so Christ is a 
■sign to the Japhetic, or gospel Israel. "This child is set for 
the fall and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign 
which shall be spoken against." 

The literal acts of the literal Christ w^ere symbols of 
thino's to follow after. As he was crucified between two 
thieves, so are his laws crucified between the double laws 
of man's nature. If not a bone of him was broken, the 
meaning is, not a law of his shall fail. 

If he casts seven devils out of Mary Magdalene, it has 
the same meaning as the seven washings of Naaman in 
Jordan ; or the seven times that passed over ISTebuchadnez- 
zar. who ate grass like an ox, or followed the law of the 
beast. It is the seven efforts of God to cleanse the moral 
world ; the same as the seven strata to form the geological 
or physical world. If Christ says to Mary : " Touch me 
not, Mary; I have not yet ascended to my Father and your 
Father," it is the prophetic sign given, that when God's 
two witnesses meet in a nation of Japheth, they would be 
" caught up to God and his throne " three years and a-half, 
and then return again. There is nothing to show any verity 
of fact in reference to the literal act. If Christ is three 
times anointed, it is to fill the three anointings of David, 
both of which Avill find their anti-t}'pe in the Japhetic Israel 
of both Unv and gospel. If Pilate says: "What I have 
written, I have written," it is the prophetic sign that Christ 
will make the name of reproach good, and it shall not be 
altered ; as if he had said : I am the king of this world, and 
mean to govern it by my own law^s ; and though these laws, 
like their master, prophecy in sackcloth and ashes, I will, 
with all their reproach, conquer the world to their dominion. 
Whatever rises to powder, either as civil or church laws, 
before my measured times of reproach, are laws of men, and 



THE :\IY8TERr FINISHED. 15 

•not my hnvs. In the fullness of time I will show this world 
who and what thev are. 

AYhile the apostle Andrew is the first apostle brought to 
Christ by John, the fore-runner, ("Andrew first findeth his 
brother. Simon Peter,") it is the three apostles. James, Peter, 
John, that are used as the trinity of apostles, to represent 
law, gospel and millennial kingdoms. James is law; Peter 
is the apostle whose literal actions are prophetic signs of the 
gospel Israel. He moves as the gospel Israel has moved. 
The law of flesh and blood did not reveal to Peter that the 
■Christ was the son of God. 

Xor is the gospel thus revealed. Thiis typical revela- 
tion of God to the world did not convert Peter, nor did it 
convert the world. •• The man of sin " had to come in, and 
sit in the temple of God, and claim to legislate for both 
departments of God's kingdom. Like Peter, he drew the 
sword to defend his foith. All these prophetic signs had to 
be fulfilled before the expiration of Daniel's 2,300 years to 
"cleanse the sanctuarj- of the heart;" to wdiicli we will 
come after awhile. Rome has done right in claiming Peter 
as holding the keys of the gospel kingdom. She w^ill be 
converted, and come to the truth, as did Peter, at the 
appointed time. God's truth will neither bend nor break at 
human opinions. The seven churches are all legitimate and 
proper (as will be seen in due time), in God's demonstra- 
tion. They are the seven wives of David. The Bathsheba 
•of the seven will also be pointed out. John is the millennial 
apostle. It is not the literal John, but the character of John, 
that is to remain till the last and final Judgment. " If he 
tarry till I come," means, if that character he jiresents is the 
only one that will remain in the glorious dispensation. 
'•'■ AVhat is that to thee ? " You must fill your separate types, 
as well as he. John is used in the same sense as the trinity. 
Noah, Daniel, Job. These are the characters that will be 
loft when God commands the sv\'ord to go through the land. 
When Christ said to his mother : " Woman, behold thy son ; 
son, behold th}' mother," thej^ w^ere spoken of as husband 
and bride, as representing earthly laws and heavenly laws. 

James, and his brother, John, are the same in gospel as 
the two sons of Rachel — Benjamin and Joseph — are, in law. 
They are law and gospel. Andrew, and Peter, his brother, 
are the same as the first and second sons of Leah, as Reuben 
and Simeon. 

As the apostle John is the millennial apostle, so he closes 
the revelations of God to man. John always begins at the 
beginning. As the characters in Genesis set the entire 
history of Israel, so does John go through that entire 



16 THE MYSTERY FINl.SI^ED. 

history. If lie writes as an evangelist, he begins at the 
beginning. "In the beginning was the word," etc. If to 
the Elect Lady, as the church, again he repeats: "That 
which ye heard from the beginning." Again, in the Eeve- 
lations, he repeats: "I am the first and the last." His 
seven trumpets, or seven seals, or seven vials, apply to the 
whole history of Israel, and are the seven nations, each with 
seven heads, dow^n the line of God's demonstration. If 
(lenesis has a Benjamin and Josej^h to represent the laws of 
God: or a Manassah and Ephraim, sons of Joseph, standing 
for God's laws. John has a " tree of life growing upon 
either bank of the river, Avhose leaves are for the healing of 
the nations." 

The book of Revelations laps around upon Genesis, and 
the book is as round as the world. 

The characters of the Old Testament are the same as those 
in the New, and these two are one. They were given in halves 
to the Israel of law as Shem, as man was made in halves; 
first, the body, and then the soul to the body ; and each of 
these halves were to be repeated in the Israel of Japheth. 
The seven ewe lambs, whicli Abraham set each to them- 
selves, in a covenant made between Abraham and Abime- 
lech, are the symbols of the seven churches of Asia, by St. 
John. John to the seven churches of Asia, is John to the 
seven churches of the land of Shem, and also John to the 
seven churches of the land in which Japheth is " enlarged 
over Shem." Shem and Japheth •' walked backwards," or 
brought the world back to the starting point. If Shem 
traveled from the center of the Eastern world eastward, 
Japheth traveled westward. North America is the only 
continent that can answer to the description of the land of 
Eden, in wJiich dwelt the first Adam and Eve, as body and 
soul, and it is likewise the place of the union of the two by 
the second Adam. It John crosses the ^Egean sea, to reach 
the lonely isle in which to lay the scene of his pro2:)hecy to 
the seven churches, it is a prophecy in action, the same as 
Jacob crossing the brook Jabbok, and then recrossing to 
wrestle with the angel. Each act will find its correspondent 
in the Japhetic Israel. Every marvellous event, every pillar 
of stone erected, every child born by promise, and every 
time tho phrase, "remaning unto this day," occurs — these are 
notes of attention, given in the Israel of Shem, to look for 
their correspondents in the Israel of Japheth. The same 
facts apply to every change of name, such as Abram and 
Abraham, — Jacob and Israel, — Jethro and Eeuei, — Naamah 
and Naomi, — Sarai and Sarah, — Cain an and Kenite, etc. 

A vast multitude in these modern times seem to be look- 



THE ilYSTERY PINISllED. 17 

iniT for the re-settlement of the Israel of Shem in Palestine, 
and the rebuilding of the literal Jerusalem. Able writers 
are advocating this as the scripture doctrine. The whole of 
the Israel of Shem was a literal type to represent the laws 
of God. The last dreadful act in which they were over- 
thrown by the Eoraans, when the Christians escaped, was 
the literal rei^resentation of the last and final judgment, 
when all who have taken refuge in Christ will escape the 
vengeance of the destroyer. 

Every part of the literal Jerusalem was a symbol. The 
rites and ordinances; the priests and sacrifices; the inner 
and the outer courts ; the Holy Place and the Holy of 
Holies. Will the next Jerusalem have all these symbols 
attached ? Will a type repeat itself? Will it be covered 
with the gold of Ophir ? Will the noise of a hammer be 
heard upon it ? AVill it have its lower order of priests, and 
its high-priests entering once a year with the blood of beasts 
to offer for the sins of the people ? Will it be Jerusalem 
without all these things? God moves forward to demon- 
strate his own truths by his own types, and men lingei' 
behind. 

The great Martin Luther could not allow the symbol in 
the saying of Christ: "This is my body." If Rome wor- 
ships beads and necklace, and the filings from the apostles' 
chains, as literal things, how much better does the .Protest- 
ant world act in holding that literal symbols will repeat 
themselves ? If holy monks keep watch over the sepulchre 
of Christ (which has been used as a type, and which has 
accomplished all that was intended), as though they expected 
him to rise every moment, how much better does the Pro- 
testant world act in looking for the rebuilding of the literal 
Jerusalem ? The treading down Jerusalem for forty and 
two months, is the treading down the laws of God, for which 
Jerusalem stood, for forty and two months. When these 
laws stand upon their feet, Jerusalem is rebuilt. These laws 
are Benjamin and Joseph, or Benjamin and Judah. Judah 
is the active tribe to bring the laws typed by Joseph. The 
kingdom was to be taken from Shem and given to a nation 
bringing forth the fruits thereof. Men will have it given 
back to the nation from which it was taken, in direct con- 
tradiction of the plain teaching: of Christ. Shem, as Asia, 
had law ; Japheth as Europe, had gospel. 

If Shem refused gospel, Japheth never had law. These 
brothers have alike been stubborn and stiff-necked. Law is 
Moses ; gospel is Christ. Shem says it is all Moses ; Japheth 
says it is all Christ. The nation to bring the two 
together, was to be literally from Japheth. When the one- 
it 



18 THE MYSTERi' FINISHED. 

lialf, aa Asia, or Shem, takes gospel, the other half, as 
Europe, or Japheth, will take law. Shem will ask : Do not 
the Scriptures positively affirm that Israel shall be settled 
after his old estates; that the judges shall be restored, as at 
the beginning, and that Jerusalem shall be rebuilt in her 
own place, and that David shall sit upon the throne ? etc. 
Certainly they do. 

The Israel from Japheth will ask : Do not the Scrip- 
tures positively affirm that the Godhead consists of Father, 
Son and Holy G-host, and that these three are one? It so 
teaches. Now, if God chooses Shem in Asia, to act the part 
of the Father, and Japheth in Europe, to act the part of the 
Son, and Shem and Japheth jointly in America, to act the 
part of tiie Holy Ghost, will not the very same language 
be used in reference to either part of this Israel, and will it 
not be Israel as much in one wing as the other, or as in both 
combined ? Israel is as essentially one Israel, though made 
lip of different parts, as man is one man, though made up 
of different parts. 

If every prophecy, whether uttered in words or actions, 
meets in this land in which Japheth is " enlarged over 
Shem," and Jerusalem is here rebuilt by God's own types, 
then does it follow that this is the Israel referred to by the 
the prophets, and that this is God's chosen land with which 
to " finish his mystery," and tell the meaning to be attached 
to the twelve patriarchs as civil law, and to the twelve 
apostles as gospel law. These laws will restore David upon 
the throne, and give him his three anointings, as the king, 
according to the literal types. Does the reader ask, can 
this be done ? If it is not done, the fault will be with the 
feeble agent using God's facts, that are as weighty as a 
" weaver's beam," and not Avith the facts themselves. These 
truths demand all the mental powers of the greatest giant. 
They have hitherto baffled all the skill of the learned, 
whether these be theologians, philosophers, statesmen, or 
the would-be prophets. The reader cannot be more aston- 
ished than is the writer, that one who makes no pretensions 
at human learning, who is, m truth, the veriest stripling in 
human knowledge^ in God's Creation, should attempt to pilot 
the ship when so many great ones have foundered. We 
are impelled forward by the light of God's truth, and the 
force of his demonstration, and wonder with amazemv.ent at 
that horror of darkness that covers the world, with the 
noon-day sun in the heavens. 

The account given in the book of Genesis of the anti- 
deluvian world, is the history of the post-del uvian world. 
It is a prophecy in action, but not in words. 



THE ?.IYSTERy FINISHED. 10 

What is the sense of a prophetic action? If Isaiah goes 
naked and barefoot, it is the sign that Israel, to whom he 
belongs, and of which he writes, will go naked and barefoot. 
If Jeremiah writes a prophecy concerning Babylon, and 
has it read, and orders it to be tied to a stone and cast into 
the Euphrates, it is a prophetic sign of the fate of Babylon. 
If Ezekiel is bound to his couch, upon one side, three hun- 
dred and ninety days, and then turned upon the other forty 
days, with a command not to turn from side to side, and with 
his pan and tile of brick erects his fortification and goes 
through the siege of Jerusalem, it is a prophecy in action. 
If Ahijah meets Jeroboam and tears his new garment into 
two parts, and onejnecc into ten, it is a prophecy concerning 
the division of Israel. If Paul is bound with the o-irdle of 
x\gebus, it is a prophec y in action. If the apostles are com- 
manded to shake the dust from their feetagainstan unworthy 
city, it is a prophecy in action. If Moses lifts the brazen 
serpent, it is a proplietic sign, and a prophecy in action. 
These examples are so numerous, it may be said that not 
only all the prophets, but the whole Book is a prophecy in 
action. God uniformly has a synopsis and a summary. 
Both the synopsis and the summary cover the whole ground. 
If Genesis is the synopsis, I^evelations is the summary. A 
few chapters at the first of Job is the synopsis. The settle- 
ment of Job, Avitli the same number of sons and daughters 
as at the start, is the summary. The seven first verses of 
that noted prophecy of Ezekiel in his xxxviii and xxxix, 
chapters, concerning a great civil war in the Japhetic Israel 
(and in reference to which no historian will ever write so 
good a history as God's prophet wrote 2500 years ago), is 
the synopsis ; the close with Israel triumphant, and the 
Spirit of God poured upon him, is the summar}'. If Joshua 
compasses Jericho onetime, and is ordered to go round it thus 
tseven times in seven days, and on the last day goes round 
it seven times, as mu h is done on the last day as during 
the whole seven ; it is the summary of the whole. The 
same facts apply to the measures of time. The jubilee at 
the end of seven times seven years, was the summary of the 
whole, and completed the cycle. The same truth applies to 
those characters used in the summaries of laws. 

David and Joseph are twice counted. Jesse had but 
seven sons, vet David is annointed by Samuel as the eia-hth 
son of Jesse. David is first counted with the seven, and 
then stands for the whole constellation. Jacob went down 
to Egypt with sixty-six souls. The two of Joseph made 
sixty-eight. The account states that all the souls of Jacob 
were seventy souls. The sixty-eight souls, arc the sixty- 



20 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

eight constellation of stars in the heavens, without the 
twelve in the zodiac. These twelve are the twelve patriarchs 
or the twelve apostles. Joseph is twice counted as both sun 
and moon, to make out the seventy, and to agree with the 
other seventy also appointed. In this same sense are all 
the kings the world has had brought together in this land, 
that they may be slain at once. A tribe is given to set forth 
these kings, and the forms of religion each has had. These, 
as an act of sovereignty with God, are made to act the parts- 
for which they have stood in Israel's history. As these have 
hitherto acted towards God's laws, they are here made to 
repeat the same in reference to those laws, that they may 
be pointed out to men. 

It has been left for this Japhetic Israel of " the last 
days " to tell the meaning of the battle of the world's kings, 
in which four killed tive. The account states that Abraham 
pursued the four to Dan, and brought back all that had been 
captured. It was a prophecy in action. In literal fact, 
there was no such city as Dan at the time of the pursuit. 
The tribe of Dan, from whom the city Dan took its name, 
was, at the time the account was written, in the loins of 
Abraham. It was a prophecy of what would be in the 
Japhetic Israel. Instances of this sort are so numerous, it 
is not worth while to name them. 

Eeuben, the first born son of Jacob, says : " If I bring 
not Benjamin, slay my two sons." Literal Eeuben had four 
sons at the time the declaration was made. The two sons 
of this Reuben, in this land, will be pointed out. If Hager 
is cast out, with her son as a little lad, and a bottle of water, 
and when she lays him under a shrub to die, withdraws 
that she may not witness the dying agony of the child, it is 
a prophecy in action, and the literal facts abate that sym- 
pathy which so touching a narrative kindles. What are the 
literal facts? Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was 
circumcised, at the promise of the birth of Isaac. It was 
not till the weaning time of Isaac that Hager and her son 
were cast out. 

Isaac could not have been less than sixteen years old, 
probably several years older, when he w^as cast out. Both 
accounts are prophetic, as symbols to Israel's history. 
They are given in reference to the future history of Israel, 
and that they could not be literal acts, is the truth. All 
these acts hold the same relation to Israel's history that the 
declaration of David does, when he says : '' When we were 
carried captive to Babylon, we hung our harps upon the 
willows." David never saw Babylon. This is a prophecy 
of a future event that will happen to those tribes that stand 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. - 21 

for the laws that met on David, spoken of as xf it had already 
passed. These are literal acts of future things, the same in 
substance as all the 2:>rophecies that speak of seeing and 
hearing things that lay thousands of years in the distance. 
Let this idea be enlarged so as to get the full sense. The 
history of Israel is a triangle. Each side of this triangle is 
subject to the same laws and to the same prophecies. Each 
side has a dragon, a beast and a false prophet. These sides 
are Shem, or the Israel of law, in Judea ; and Japheth, or 
gospel, in Europe and America, as the land in which Japheth 
is enlarged, in a double sense, over Slieni. The dragon pur- 
sues and kills. The beast carries into captivity. The false 
prophet claims a higher law than Moses. Egypt was the 
dragon to Shem ; Babylon was the beast. The literal Israel, 
combining with pagan Eome, were the false prophet. The 
higher law than Moses said, Ca3sar is our king. Moses said : 
" Thou shalt not kill." The higher law said : " By our law 
he ought to die." Egypt is the place of learning. Babylon 
is the place of one language, and also the place of confusion. 

Turning to the second side of this trian2;le;in the land 
of Japheth, or gospel Israel in Eome, Pagan Rome is the 
dragon to kill ; Papal Eome is the beast, or mystical Baby- 
lon, to lead into captivity. Mahomet stands as " the false 
prophet," claiming a law superior to that of Moses. If literal 
Babylon represents the two tribes, as Benjamin and Judah, 
or law and gospel, in captivity, these two are symbolically 
the same as the laws of God, for Avhich David stood, and 
David is in captivity to literal Babylon. While two tribes 
are in literal Babylon, it is the other half of Israel, or the 
ten tribes, or the lost Ephraim, that represents " mystical 
Babylon." The ten kingdoms of Daniel, into which West 
Rome was broken, are called ten horns, and among which a 
"little horn" came up, and are the ten lost tribes of the Israel 
of Shem, given to Japheth, and they are called Ephraim. 
Where, among these ten, is David, that he is in captivity to 
mystical Babylon ? This Babylon is the place of one 
language, the same as the literal JBabylon. The Latin is the 
universal language. 

David's harp is upon the willows. David is in the 
same place that Rachel is. Rachel is the woman with two 
Avings of a great eagle hid in the place which God had pre- 
pared for her. These two Avings of this woman, are God's 
two laws, written in his Book; the very same that met on 
David. God has prepared this harlot Rahab in law, or 
Shem, called Tamar, in gospel or Japheth, to save his two 
spies. This mystical Babylon is terribly wicked and cruel, 
having united Simeon and Levi, but the crypt of the con- 



22 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

vent of the Eomisli monks, liicles the two spies of God. 
David and the woman, and Benjamin and Judah, or Josej^h 
and Jernselum, and the Bible, and the two witnesses, are- 
one and the same things, and the}^ are interchangeable- 
terms. The harp of David is upon the w^illows in this cap- 
tivity. Will David forget Jerusalem? or will he sing the 
Lord's song in a strange land? No, no! If from this pos- 
sessed Saul, as a human king, he is to drive out the evil 
spirit, it must be according to the laws of the natural king, 
and it must be done with the artistic skill of musical instru- 
ments. This is not the "Lord's song." Let this thought 
pass for the present. 

These thoughts must, of necessity, be transferred to 
North America tofillupthe last side of this triangle accord- 
ing to the types of both the other sides. That which was 
David, as the two tribes in the literal Babjdon, or the word 
of God, as David among the ten tribes of mystical Babylon, 
will, in this land, be represented by those collective bodies, 
making both civil and soul laws, and these are carried into 
captivity to the " Yirgin daughter of Babylon." This vir- 
gin daughter, does not claim alliance with the State by 
statute law, as literal Babylon, or, as mystical Babylon ; yet 
she as virtually unites the two by making a great image, as 
did her arch-types. The ten horns of mystical Babylon, rej)- 
resenting ten kingdoms, are in this "virgin daughter," 
represented by the ten original tribes or States, that do not 
come with national Judah. If this virgin daughter talks 
like a lamb, she acts like a dragon. If she says " govern- 
ments are by consent of the governed, and religion is free," 
she sets aside both the laws of Moses and Christ. She has 
a great image for her God. No use for Moses to say God's 
covenants are with Abra-Ham. Ham, the father of Canaan, 
shall serve Japheth in the land of his enlargement. "Thou 
shalt not covet thy neighbor's servant." No use for Christ to 
say, " Servants be obedient to your masters. If any man teach 
otherwise, he is proud, knowing nothing; they have cor- 
rupt minds, and are destitute of truth." 

Is this virgin daughter of Babylon insincere in all this? 
No, no, no! They are as sincere as was literal Babylon or 
mystical Babylon. They feel they are doing God ser- 
vice, and so they are. They are driving Israel to demon- 
strate the truth that God is king, and that he alone rules in 
the affairs of men. The Israel of Japheth would never 
have been settled after the types of the Israel from Shem, 
had not the "virgin daughter " driven her to do it. 

God's form of laws would never hav^ been known with- 
out using her as his whip. We cannot refuse to call her 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED, 23 

brother, because of this captivity. It is not her, but God. 
It is not done to destroy life, but to save it. When a great 
light shines upon her, the scales will fall from her eyes, and 
she Avill become the great apostle. She will then no longer 
be Babylon, as the place of confusion, but will be a great 
worker in rebuilding the temple. If " Hairy Esau standing 
for the sinful man, in contrast with Eed Esau, the natural 
man, had not driven Jacob, standing for God's double laws, 
Jacob would never have moved forward. If Esau has his 
foot uj^on Jacob's neck, he should not forget that Jacob 
holds him by the heel, "the hand of man is betwixt the 
hand and the heel." Jacob will sling out Esau all the world 
over before it is done. 

Let us now proceed in the most concise form to present 
God's types and God's history in their fulfillment. In order 
to be concise, we must be dogmatic. It must be taken for 
granted that the reader is acquainted with Moses who sets 
the types, and with the prophets who tell how they will be 
fulfilled, and with the secular history of Israel, which tells 
when it is done. These are the only things we call Eabbi. 
To undertake to teach them would require a commentary 
upon the whole Bible. 

The following are the eight types of Christ to build his 
ark : Two are ])rophetic, Samuel and Elijah ; two are 
priestly, Isaac and Aaron ; two are kingly, Moses and 
David ; and as the seventh combines all of these, he is 
prophet, priest and king — this one is Joseph. The eighth, 
made up of the seven, which stands as JSToah, the eighth 
person, is Solomon. The master must come before the world 
will ever see a greater than Solomon. In splendor and 
grandure, when the six days w^orking time, is done will the 
laws of God reign a thousand years as Solomon, which wnll 
be the jubilee. 

How long will God require to finish this ark? This de- 
pends upon what sj'mbol is followed in the count. It will 
take six days standing for six thousand years, if common 
time be counted. It will take one hundred and twenty 
3^ears. which Avas the age of Moses, if the count is by the 
jubilee, based upon the square of the seven stars. It will 
take seventy years, as the age of David, if the count is gov- 
erned by the number of cycles of Orion. " He maketh the 
seven stars and Orion." The planet Uranus in modern 
times is Orion wnth Job and the prophets. His cycle is com- 
plete in eighty-four years. If six thousand be divided by 
the square of the seven stars as seven by seven — forty-nine, 
then one year to make the fiftieth to complete the jubilee, 
the product is one hundred and twenty. This is the age of 



24: THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Moses, aud tlio leno-th of time which Noah took to build 
the Ark. If the six thousand be divided by the cycle of 
Orion which belongs to David the King, not only of the gos- 
pel dispensation, but more especially of the representative 
land in which he was to be restored in the laws for which 
he stood, which laws are the Ark, or the same as Jerusalem, 
it will stand six thousand — one hundred and twenty as the 
Jubilee periods belonging to Moses, which leaves five thou- 
sand eight hundred and eighty years. If these be divided by 
the cycle of Orion, as five thousand eight hundred and 
oighty by eighty-four, it will give the exact age of David. 

Sometimes the summaries have to be added, not only as 
the jubilee, but also the Sabbatee years. Sometimes they 
are substracted. . 

What is true as Dinah with the patriarchs or Paul with 
the Apostles, neither of which are counted ; and what is 
again true with David and Joseph, both of which are twice 
counted, is also true in the measures of prophetic times. 

In this land in which the literal is fulfilled at every point, 
it will require only one cycle of Orion or eighty -four years from 
the first annointing of David as the civil government at 
Philadelphia, by the Israel of law as twelve tribes, in 1776, 
to his second annointing by National Judah in 1861 to build 
Jerusalem or the Ark of Noah. So the seventy weeks of 
David are here brought down to seventy years from the 
coming of the moon or the half tribe Manassah, which was 
the first tribe that came to the original twelve for the sec- 
ond settlement of Israel. This half tribe is Ky — which 
came in 1791. "Seventy years are determined upon thy 
people from the going forth of the decree to restore and 
build Jerusalem." This ended in 1861. The forty years for 
Israel to journey in the wilderness from the half tribe 
Ephraim, the same as the first journeyed from the tribe of 
Judah, or Georgia, began in 1821 and ended in 1861. 

The nation to be overthrown, was the nation to re-build 
Jerusalem. That was to finish the transgression, in both 
civil and soul laws. They were to annoint the most holy. 
They were to unseal the book, and make an end of sin. The 
laws were to meet in this nation, as they had met on the 
Christ in the Israel from Shem. What a contradiction this 
is, and yet how exact all is fulfilled ? Let us leave these 
thoughts for the present. 

Grod uniformly has a first, a last and a centre. The six 
prospective days to build the world and subject it to the 
laws of the Creator, are divided as follows : The first day 
as the first thousand years closed with the translation of 
Enoch. The second day closed with the call of Abraham. 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 25 

These two tliousand years are Monday and Tuesday, in the 
world's week, and belong to the Anti-deluvian world. The 
third day closed with the temple of Solomon, with the di- 
vine glory filling the house, thus showing how the three 
days to follow w^ould close with the divvne glory to fill the 
world, and upon which house, not the noise of a hammer by 
hewing and carving will be heard. The fourth day closed 
with the coming of the world's moral sun, and agrees with 
the world's literal sun of the fourth day. 

As in the fourth literal day, the light of the moon and 
the light of the sun, which had been blended together, were 
separated the one from the other. So the coming of the 
moral sun at the close of the fourth chilead separated the 
moon or law from the sun or" gospel. The Israels of the 
moon and sun were also separated. These two daj'S are 
AYednesday and Thursday, and were given to Shem. The 
fifth day closed with the deep sleep of the world ; as the 
tenth century was not only the close of the fifth day, but it 
was the centre of the ten dark centuries, beginning with the 
sixth and ending with the sixteenth. This was the deep 
sleep of the world and presaged the coming of the bride 
from the side of the second Adam, the same as Eve from the 
side of the first Adam. The sixth day will find the world 
fitted for the abode of the laws of the second Adam, the 
same as was typed by the first Adam. 

It is now in the Saturdayeveningof the two days given 
to Japheth. The days of the last chilead will be shortened, 
for the elect or law's sake. Were these days not shortened, 
God's laws would be driven out of the world. Hence the 
last chilead will not reach its full measure. So far as these 
days are concerned, they appear to be prospective days, 
and God may have been six millions of years fitting the 
earth for the abode of man. Let science go unfettered, and 
learn from every continent and zone, from every rock and 
pebble, from every flora and fern, from every footprint, 
whether mastadon or crawling insect, from every ocean, 
earth, or twinkling star. In short, let her travel to the out- 
skirts of all things, till the Creator speaks, " Thus far shalt 
thou go," and the whole will but tend to show the wisdom, 
power and goodness of the Creator. 

The first pair put on trial stand for the two continents, 
North and South America. This was the prospective place 
in which they dwelt, whether in literal fact, or no. 

The moral world moves in concert with the physical 
world. As Adam and Eve were one, so with the two conti- 
nents, North and South America. This oneness of the first 
Adam not only applies to the laws for which he stood for 



26 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

the double man, but likewise to the double continents. The 
double laws of the second Adam will not only return as at 
first given in the first Adam, but the place of starting with 
the first, is the place of union in the last. 

In the garden of Eden, in which dwelt the first Adam, 
there was a river that parted into four heads. The name of 
the first was Pison. '' This is it that riseth in a land of 
srold," and is the Missouri river. This is made first because 
the order follows the movements of Shem, to whom the 
laws were given, and not that of Japheth. 

Shem moved to the East, Japheth to the West. The 
second river is Gihon. " This is it which goeth through the 
land of Ethiopia." This is the lower end of the Mississij^pi 
river, which from its junction with the Pison, goeth through 
the land in which Ham w^as to become the substitute of Ca- 
naan in the Israel of Shem. 

The name of the third river is Hiddekel, and lieth to 
the East of Assyria. This is the upper end of the Mississip- 
pi, and the same line from West to East is still observed. 
The fourth and last, as the most remote from the starting 
point, is Euphrates. This is the Ohio river. 

The world has but one continent and one river that 
answers the description as recorded in Genesis, and at the 
same time cuts the continent into four grand divisions, agree- 
ing with the four grand divisions of the literal Israel. Two 
rivers cross each other, from the center of which the heads 
point to each of the cardinal poinls, and that is the way in 
which it goeth. " This is the great valley of the prophet 
Zieh, in which it divided the land from East to West, and 
half of the mountain removed to the North and half to the 
South." Mountains, States, tribes or kingdoms, are synomy- 
mous terms. As the Euphrates divided the Israel of Shem 
from the literal Babylon, so the Euphrates, in the Japhetic 
Israel, sets the boundary between Israel, and the " Yirgin 
daughter of Babjdon." 

When this river is dried up or broken down, as a parti- 
tion between Israel and Babylon, it is to prepare the way of 
the kings of the East ; which way is to force the laws of the 
natural man upon Israel, contrary to the revealed laws of 
God. This was a necessary result in order to cleanse 
Israel from her Idols. Were it not so, " God would not have 
put it into their hearts to agree, and give their power to the 
beast, or laws of nature, in order to drive Israel to fulfill his 
word, and demonstrate the meaning of his laws." These 
thoughts show that the book of Genesis was written in con- 
formity to the present physical arrangement of the world, 
and is in literal fact no older than Moses. Every part of 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 27 

Genesis and Job, find their easy and natural application to 
the history of Israel, from the first Adam who stood to rep- 
resent the laws of G-od, down to the triumph of those laws 
in the second Adam, as husband and bride, as moon and 
sun, as civil law and soul law. This is not the question now 
to be considered. As the literal Shem once held posses- 
sion of the continent of America, so was the land of Shem, 
as Asia, once joined to America. As he was to loose his lit- 
eral claim, so have the continents been separated. The lit- 
eral is up at every point. The seven stars are the seven 
days of the week ; as one of these is broken into fragments, 
so has God's holy day been broken in the moral world. 

The fii'st pair put on test had a positive law of easy 
comj)rehension which preceded the test. It was simply to 
determine Avhcther the compound man would follow^ the 
law of the natural, or whether he would follow the law of 
the supernatural. If he followed the laAv of the natural, 
the beast of his nature made of the dust, like the beast, 
would rule him. If he followed the law^ of the Creator, then 
would the divine nature, as the supernatural, rule him. The 
beasts and birds need no higher law than that of nature to 
govern them. Had man only had the law of the beast he 
might have lived and died as a beast, in which the strong- 
est would have ruled. As man w^as something more than 
the beast, having not only a bod}^ possessing all the j^as- 
sions and appetites of the beast, but likewise a soul, divine 
in its nature and as capable of suffering or enjoying as the 
body, and not only these distinct natures, but an organism 
that gave the power of reasoning that stood as the agent to 
keep up communication between these distinct natures, the 
Creator gave him a law differing from that given to the 
beast. This law he violated, choosing to follow the law of 
the beast. This act has followed his posterity, and all alike 
choose to follow the law of the beast. Eve standing for the 
soul half of man's nature, said, " The serpent tempted 
and I did eat." Adam, the bod}^, said, '• The woman gave 
me." As these followed the beast and not the laws of God, 
being yet natural and supernatural, that thus begotten in 
the act is called the "Xahash " or serpent. It is the rule in 
these things that the act of the parent belongs to the child. 
If Isaac, "the Christ, trembles exceedingly" in turning 
" Hairy Jacob " to smooth Jacob, or rather to "Wrestling 
Israel," the act ^^ortains to the subject and not to the one 
setting the sign. We say Hairy Jacob, because he was 
made to put on the hairy gloves of Esau, to show that by 
nature he was as hairy as Esau. 

The " exceeding trembling " is the act of the subject ia 



28 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

the new birth. It is not " the Christ," as Isaac that trem- 
I)les, though the act is applied to Isaac. If Sarah laughs at 
the promise of the birth of Isaac and then asserts, '' I laughed 
not," there is no contradiction in it, Tsaac is the soul, when 
that is born it laughs, and yet it does not laugh. It does 
not laugh derisively as a natural man or from the pleasure 
of the outer, but from the pleasing emotions of the inner 
man. These thoughts are enough to show that the act of the 
parent is given to show the nature of the thing begotten. That 
which was begotten in the double act of Adam and Eve, as 
natural and supernatural is represented by the "Nahash." 
That is, it has a divine nature, being the offspring of divine 
parentage, but no divine power by which it could over- 
come the infirmity of its fallen nature. The world could 
never become a " living soul" by following the laws of this 
offspring, resulting from the act of Adam and Eve. But 
God had determined it should become a "living soul," and that 
in doing this he would use this " Nahash," this proclivity to 
evil, as his servant, in bringing this about. Obedience to 
the laws of the Maker is that that will make the world a 
"living soul " to its dead body, as a physical world. This 
obedience includes both civil and soul laws. 

In the second test act of God with man, it was with 
the three sons of Noah, standing for the three continents of 
Asia, Africa and Europe. The test this time does not turn 
upon a law of easy comprehension, to see whether man will 
follow the beast, or the law of God, as in the first instance, 
but it turns upon the point of how shall the infirmity oi the 
first pair be overcome. It was not to see whether the soul 
or church, would cover itself with "fig-leaves" instead of 
the laws of the Creator, or whether the world would be 
sober or drunk. It was already drunk, as Noah was drunk. 
Means were to be devised by which to sober it. The only 
thing that could sober it was the laws of the Maker. These 
laws were very complex in their character, and the maker 
intended to write them in a book, and then write them again 
in his book of nature, in which nations, and kingdoms, and 
cycles and churches, should be their exponent. 

While the test in the first pair turned upon the observ- 
ance of a law already given and of easy comprehension, 
that of the second turned upon the power of capacity to un- 
derstand a complex law when demonstrated. Those of 
Noah's sons, (or if the reader pleases) the world's sons, that 
gave evidence of having overcome the "Nahash," or incli- 
nation to follow the beast, or natural, were the ones to whom 
the laws were to be given. As Ham, the youngest son, 
looked with indifference upon a naked and drunken world. 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 23 

he was still a beast, and in this sense stands as the literal rep- 
resentative of the "Nahash," begotten by the firstpair. Two 
thousand years from Adam finds him the beast at first be- 
gotten by Adam and Eve. If he had gained nothing above 
the beast during tliis time, and had learned notliingfroni his 
"Father Noah, a preacher of righteousness,'' it was the evi- 
dence that so far as he was concerned the world would re- 
main naked and drunk, till the day of doom, and he would 
never cover that nakedness by following the laws of the 
Maker. In the person of Ham, the youngest son of Noah, 
the "• Naliash '" of A(him and Eve assumes bodily form as 
the literal representative of the natural man to pursue the 
laws of nature. Such is his nature arising from the ascen- 
dency of the beast, that he could never be made conformable 
to the law^s of the Maker if left to his own powers of tracing 
cause and sequence, or type and anti-type, in the demonstra- 
tion. Still, he is not a beast, in the full sense of that term. 
He is the thing begotten by the natural and supernatural, 
as Adam and Eve; if not in very deed, he is so regarded 
by God's symbols, which makes it very deed, and that he is 
possessed with a soul, as is the other brothers, will fully ap- 
pear before we are done. Were he wholly a beast, no good 
reason could be assigned for imposing it upon Shemand Jap- 
heth to make him a servant of tribute. 

Ilam is in a double sense a "Servant of servants.'' God 
made promise that the •' Seed of the woman should bruise 
the serpent's head," but that the serpent, or "Nahash," 
should "Bruise his hell." The meaning of which is, God 
would use that inclination to follow nature to drive that 
same nature to demonstrate that he alone had the right to 
rule. That is, he would make the antagonism of that nature, 
kill itself. \Yhile in the contest his own laws would be 
bruised; yet in the end they should conquor. This should 
be not only in the " Begotten Son," but in a nation bringing 
forth both the firstborn son, and the begotten son. Thus he 
would use the "Nahasli," or Ham, as his servant of the two 
laws, making his servants. As in all things, the literal is up 
with the symbolic, tlie literal Ham was to be a literal servant 
of tribute. 

The other brothers who walked backwards to cover the 
nakedness of their father ; by that symbolic act, showed that 
they had risen above the law of the beast, which felt no con- 
cern about whether the world was drunk or sober. 

By this act they showed that they had learned to feel 
for the infirmities of others; and reason, if not revelation, 
had made some impression upon them. This test act showed 
a capacity of comprehending what the beast never could 



30 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

comprehend, and that tliey could understand complex hiws 
when demonstrated. 

AVhat now are the symbolic laws which the three broth- 
ers represent. Ham is the literal representative of that class 
who follow the laws of nature in both the natural and super- 
natural man. Shem stands as the Israel with the law of the 
body as given by God, and a literal law of the soul ; Japheth 
is the law of G-od for the soul, and the law of nature for the 
body. Shem and Japheth jointly are God's laws for both 
body and soul, civil and church. These are what God will 
have, and it must begin with Japheth. 

In bringing all things back to the original, it was " The 
earth that helj^ed the woman." The woman is the Bible. 
It will be seen that the British Isles, are " the earth." She 
stood as the gospel Judah of Japheth from between whose 
feet the lawgiver was to come. The two Islands of England 
and Scotland are as the two continents of J^orth and South 
America. If to these Ireland be added, they then represent 
Asia, Africa and Europe. She is the world in miniature. 
When God's laws are established in that unity for which 
they were designed, the single continent of Australia stands 
to represent this unity. 

" The book of the generation of Adam " is the book of 
the generation of God, to fill up his world's week. The lit- 
eral generations are the symbols of civil governments. 
These are called " Sons of God," because they represent his 
laws down the line of Israel's history. When these mix 
with human laws, they mingle Avith the " seed of men." 
When these meet in human laws for State and church, ac- 
cording to the types, then is the geneology complete. 

Eve is the only woman used to represent the church 
until the covenants made with Abraham. She stands to 
represent the soul, rather than the church of the soul. Sarah, 
the wife of Abraham, is the law of gospel, or the soul, in 
contrast with Hager the cermonial law. Eebecca, the wife 
of Isaac, is the gospel church ; nor does she arise till all the 
prophetic signs are fulfilled and all the times are measured 
for her to come forth. The literal acts of the literal Israel 
are the symbols of gospel Israel. Eebecca, the church of 
gospel, does not rise till after the forty-two months cai)tivity 
of mystical Babylon closes after the "breaking of the day," 
or reformation. 

She rises at the same place that Sarai is changed to 
Sarah, or Jacob to Israel. This is not done till Jacob starts 
back to his "father's house," or laws, and crosses the brook 
Jabbok with his family and enters " Red Esau's land/' and 
then recrosses it to "wrestle with the angel." The church 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 31 

■of Rebecca does not rise till, like Isaac, *' meeting her in the 
field ;" preaching the word of God, begins in the field. Every 
literal act of these "Sons of Grod" is a speaking j^rophecy 
and must find their approj^riate places in history. These 
.acts are given to fix the points from which to measure the 
times of the prophets. The literal acts are the skeleton, or 
Moses. The pro^^hets tell how to put the flesh upon it, or 
to clothe it. Xo use for one to rise from the dead and tell a 
different story. God always did intend at his appointed 
time to be understood. 

By measure hath he measured the times, and by num- 
ber hath he numbered the times, and he doth not move nor 
stir till the said measure be fulfilled." Esdeas. "Days were 
to speak, and years teach wisdom. As these move forward 
they turn the pages of the book, and man is only asked to 
look and see, and learn the truth. As God saved Xoah, the 
eighth person, a preacher of righteousness," so he means 
to save the world. He means to save Solomon, the eighth 
and last and highest type of God. 

Solomon has wives, and concubines enough to cover the 
world. God will do this by his own laws. All shall know 
the Lord," David, as civil law. was restored to rule at the 
rise of the twelve tribes as the United States. This was 
David, with seven wives, standing for seven churches." 

This was the first annointing of David in the gospel 
Israel, given to Japheth in the land of his enlargement. 
David is again annointed by national Judali, and the Bath- 
sheba, among the seven churches, is 2:)ointed out. This 
Bathsheba comes of the tribe of Judah, in national Judah, 
and at her head stands Andrew as the first Apostle, who was 
born of Judah. 

In order to find the truth, God's symbolic characters 
must be tracked from Adam till to-day. In order to find 
David as the representative of God's laws in the Israel of 
Japheth, the same lines must be observed that were given 
in the "bond-woman," or Israel of Shem, that brought 
forth the literal David. The raising up of David and sitting 
him upon the throne, " is the raising up of the laws of God 
for which David stood and seating them upon the throne. 
If the literal David was ■throuofh the first born of Judah's 
twins, as Phares as the political government, he will 
be, through the first born of the gospel Israel, given to Ju- 
dah or Japheth. If the literal David came through Eahab 
and Iluth, in the literal, he will come through that wing in 
the gospel, for which they stand in their symbolic character, 
when applied to Judah, as gospel, who stands for the one 
tribe to remain to the house of David." 



32 THE MYSTERY FIN!SIIEP» 

Each circle of the several symbols iiriist b^ considered 
before the exact sense can be reached. Like the celestial 
heavens they move as an orb within an orb. The grand 
division is followed by subdivisions, all of which are given 

to get the sense. 

Let us now track these symbols as they apply to the Is- 
rael of law given to Shem, and to gospel Israel given to Jap- 
heth in Europe. These two wings have the same ending, 
and a new start was made at the rise of the United States, 
as the land in which Japheth was "enlarged over Shem." 
The twelve original colonies of this land were the Israel of 
law. We say twelve, >• Simeon and Levi are brethern," and 
stand as one in this demonstrative Israel. These are simply 
Carolina in this explanatory land. Another twelve, or eleven 
and two half tribes are cut off, which brings Jacob to his 
fathers laws, in a South land. These will tell the watchmen 
what the hour of the night ; these will tell what God thinks 
of all human laws, whether in Church or State ; these will 
show that the land has never had one accidental President, 
and that one has never died only by Cod's appointment. If 
they will tell every man what God thinks of every important 
vote he ever cast, let the reader remember it is not the doings 
of the feeble and obscure writer, who has no skill nor power 
to do anything. All we can do is simply to look at God's 
facts as he has made them, which it seems to us any think- 
ing mind can do as well as we. 

If they shall show to every one that there is no " man 
that sinneth not," it will only confirm the truth of the de- 
claration of Solomon. 

The line of political governments from Adam, repre- 
senting the body, or civil law of the body, is through Cain. 
The line of the soul, or church of the soul from Eve, is 
through Abel, or through Seth, who came in the place of 

Abel. 

Adam, is the anti-deluvian world ; Cain is the Israel of 
law given to Shem. To the offering of Cain as "the fruilg 
of the ground," God found no fault, saying, "If thoudoest 
well shalt not thou be accepted." The same was true of the 
Israel of law. Cain killed his brother for the simple reason 
that his sacrifice was received with approbation, whereas 
Cain's did net get the approbation. The same is true of the 
Israel of law, who killed the world's Abel. Cain was a tiller 
of the soil, so were they; Cain was cast out, so were they. Cain 
ceased to till the soil, and became a trafficer, so have they. 
God set a mark on Cain; God set a mark in the flesh of the 
Israel of law. Cain said, " Whoever findeth me will slay 
me." The Israel of law has been slain in all lands, and suf- 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 33 

fered more than any people upon the earth. The name of 
Cain has become a l3y-word of reproach. He will Jew you, 
is a by-word of reproach. God said," Let Cain live ; whoever 
killeth him shall have vengeance taken upon him seven- 
fold." The Israel of law for which Cain stands, like the 
law for which they stand, are God's " burning bush." They 
cannot die. They will live to see every persecutor they 
ever had blotted out of existence. They move with the law 
for which they stand. They are Benjamin to Joseph .: 
" Benjamin shall dwell in safety all the day long, and in the 
evening he shall divide the spoil." While they represent 
law, Joseph is both law and go.spel. Egypt, Babylon, Greece, 
Rome, the ten hours, will all die, but this Cain will live. 
While he is of Shem, or the bond-woman, and it is his busi- 
ness to carry the law into all the world; Japhelh must carry 
the gospel. These shall come together, both literally and 
symbolically. 

There is a double trinity in Cain : These are Cain, 
Cainan and Tubalcain. These arc the natural man as 
Cain. God's law of the natural man, given in the land of 
Canaan as ''The fruits of the ground Tubalcain," the laws 
of God mixing up with. the laws of men. Cain, Cainan, Tu- 
balcain, stand the natural or wicked man. The literal man 
Cainan, as the servant in the land of Canaan, &c. When 
Cain as the Israel of law was cast out, and the law for which 
these stood mingled with " the seed of men," they jointly be- 
came ''Tabalcain and his sister Naamah." The literal account 
is Cain cast out begat a son whose name was Enoch, and 
builded a city, and called it by his son's name." The 
first change which the gospel of Judah made in the civil 
«;overnment of Rome, in which Cain, or the Israel of law. was 
''cast out," was in Constantine. The city builded by Con- 
stantino was Constantinople, and he is the Enoch of Cain. 
Trad, is the empire of Eome, divided into East and West; 
Mehujacl, is the West broken into ten kingdoms, holding 
one form of religion ; Methusael is Protestant England, sepa- 
rating from Rome, and Lamech is the United States, as the 
Israel of law in Japheth, settled after the order of the " old 
estates," as given to Shem. "This Lamech was the literal 
"Union, first formed at the literal Philadelphia in this land. 

This Israel had not only to "fly upon the shoulders of 
the Philistines to the West" — that is, sail in ships — but it had 
to journey forty years in the wilderness, the same as the 
Israel of Shem. This journey is from the tribe of Judah 
or Georgia, as the tribe at which it is said "Lear left bear- 
ing," and is the last tribe of the first settlement as the Israel 
of law given to Japheth. 



34 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

In this count, if the count begins with the civil or body, 
it ends with the church or soul. If it begins with the church 
it ends with the civil, and both must end in forty years, by 
an organization at Pliiladelphia, as husband and bride, as it 
was the church among the seven of St. John, at Philadelphia, 
that ^' held the key of David." 

This Lamech, as the Israel of law, made up of twelve 
tribes given to Japheth in the land of his "enlargement," 
took two wives. The church had existed in two forms, and 
He granted toleration to both. The one Avife as Adah^ stand- 
ing for the ceremonial law of Shem, had two sons, as two 
&rms of civil government. She bare Jabal "that kept flocks." 
and Jubal that played on " musical instruments." The 
Israel of Shem was first patriarchal, and then it became 
kingly, not by the law of Grod, but by the will of man, which 
said, " Governments are by the consent of the governed." 
This change took place when the law of Grod had been per- 
fected in the seventh representative head of law as judges, 
and it became Jubal or kingly, as Saul, the first king, by the 
will of man. David, with his " musical instrument," playing 
before Saul, is man's form of laws. The form of God is 
Jabal or the patriarchal form, as he entered his " solemn 
protest " against the dej^arture from that form as his civil 
law of the body. He stands pledged to have a nation to 
take the kingdom. Elias restores all things. The protest 
against man's king, is the protest against the musical instru- 
ment to drive out the evil spirit that governs man. If the 
musical instrument is required to gather the people to the 
house of God, it is the king of man. God intends his own 
laws shall do this without any help from human kings. 
•'Forsake not the assembling of yourselves," is the word of 
God. It is enough to know that God said it. As God granted 
the king, in accordance to the weakness of man's nature, so 
he granted the musical instrument in accordance with the 
weakness of the same nature. Neither the one. nor the 
other, will be needed, or even asked for, when the demon- 
stration is finished; but God will be the king. When this is 
done, the saying of David will be fulfilled, '• Let the people 
praise Thee; let all the people praise Thee." This time is 
not yet. 

The other wife of Lamech stands to represent Japheth, 
or the gospel Israel in Eome. This wife was named Zillah, 
and she bare "Tubalcain and his sister, Naam^ah." This 
wife came up when Cain, or Shem, or the Israel of law, was 
cast out, and she came in the union of civil and church laws in 
Constantino. The literal Naamah, the wife of Solomon, was 
the line to bring forth the Christ, upon whom the laws of 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 35 

God met. The laws of God to bring forth David, must fol- 
low the same line. 

This wife Zillah is the representative of a forcible union 
between church and State. The law of the church leads 
the law of the State the same as Eve led Adam, and the 
State wields the force to bring men to the standard of morals 
which the church establishes. AYhen this is the condition, 
whether it be with Zillah, or Tubalcam and his sister, 
Naamah," in Eome, or in this land of Lamech, "They com- 
pass land and sea to make our proselytes and keep their 
sentinels upon the lookout to hunt souls." 

" Tubalcain was the inventor of everything in brass and 
iron, and thus stands as the opposite of the sturdy habits of 
PatriarchalJabal, that kept flocks and tilled the soil. This 
Lamech told these two wives he had a double work to do ; 
he had to slay a "man, and a young man ; that he would 
slay the man to his wounding and the young man to his 
hurt." That is, as the Israel of God to bring forth his own 
laws, he had to slay the kingly form of government that came 
up in the Israel of Shcm, which substituted the one manpower 
for the law of God. As the Israel of Japheth, or gospel 
given by Judah, left that gospel and united both the civil and 
soul laws in the man of sin that crept into the temple of God," 
he would slay him. Lamech had to slay both departures from 
the double laws of God, whether as the civil king in Shem as 
soul, or whether as both the civil and soul king as in Kome. 
The substitutes for these are Moses and Christ. This Lamech 
slayed the kingly form, or the one man power, with the 
twelve first tribes as the Israel of law. These began with 
Keuben as the Exedox or Virginia, and ended with Georgia 
or Judah, in the first settlement in this land, and this whole 
lot of children was Leah's; all included between the first 
and last, were Leah's, as the first and last were hers. This 
one man power as the " Divine right of kings" followed the 
law of the beast in that he forced laws upon Israel in which 
they had no voice. This mark of the beast in the first in- 
stance of slaying a man was present^id by George III, in the 
" Stamp act." It required a seven years war for Lamech to 
slay the old king; he is as old as Egypt. The young man, 
as a union of civil and soul laws, is only half as old as the 
old man, as he come into being after the coming of gospel 
by Judah. This young man, as Ephraim, representing ten 
tribes, built "golden heifers" in the literal Israel. The same 
young man standing for ten tribes as Ephraim built golden 
heifers in Eome, by the sale of indulgencies. Both of these, 
as type and anti-type, represented the one-half of the first 
Israel. Ten tribes of this Japhetic Israel of law, North of 



36 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Eeuben, in the first settlemeDt, have again built "golden 
heifers ;" these have united State and church, and made a 
great image. None dare teach either Moses or Christ. Will 
Lamech slay this young man ? It will be to his hurt. He 
will slay him with that Israel that stands for both law and 
gospel. The first and the last, are the two of Rachel's in 
this second settlement, Joseph and Benjamin. 

In this second settlement, the two sons of Rachel, that 
stand as the summaries of laws that were first set up 
at Philadelphia, after forty years from the last tribe of Judah, 
are now " the first and the last," as was Reuben and Judah, 
in the first settlement. It will require Jacob moving as 
" God the Holy Ghost" to get Rachel, a seven years service, 
the same as it required seven years war, in the firstinstance^ 
to get both Leah and Rachel, jointl}^ These two as wives 
to God's laws must be separated. Rachel is what is want- 
ing ; nothing but Rachel God will have. She is the word of 
God; she is not only Moses, with twelve patriarchs, as law 
standing as Benjamin, but she is Joseph, as twelve apostles, 
to add the soul to the body. The lawgivers, to bring this 
Rachel, must come out of Judah in this land, the same as the 
Christ or David upon whom the}^ met, came of Judah. 

The tribe of Georgia is Judah. This tribe, in the first 
settlement of this Israel of law, extended to the Mississippi 
river. The two tribes which came of this Judah as Alabama 
and Mississippi, make the literal feet of the literal Judah. 
While the head of the church must come of Judah, the civil 
head must come from "between his feet." Let this pass for 
the present. The main point to be observed is, that the 
twelve original colonies of this land as the restored Israel 
given to Japheth, stand for the Lamech in the line of the 
civil law from Adam. The line of the church through 
Seth must be brought up and see if it coincides with the 
civil line at the same point as the Lamech to bring forth 
the Noah to save the world. 

The following are the names of the generations from 
Adam through Seth ; Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, 
Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech. Adam, the anti-deluvi- 
an world ; Seth, the ceremonial law given toShem; Enos, 
the gospel by Christ; Cainan, that gospel united with the 
civil yet subordinate to the civil under Constantino; Maha- 
laleel, the gospel divided between Greek and Latin, and su- 
perior to the State ; Jared, the reformation, breaking away 
from the State; Enoch, Diocesian Episcopal Ruth, that fol- 
lowed Naamah the mother-in-law ; Mcthusalah, the dissen- 
tees, as Orpah, " that kissed the mother-in-law and turned 
back," or became congregational; Lamech, the church of 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 37 

John Wesley, which came beUveen the feet of Judah, hold- 
ing with both Ruth and Orpha, and organizing a church 
with a Bishop as the head, and yet teaching for the soul 
" Ye must be born a2:ain." 

This church of Mr. Wesley, as Lamech, in this land, 
dates from the tribe of Judah, forty years to Philadelphia. 
Oglethorpe settled in Georgia in 1733. On the 4th day of 
July, 1773, the church of Mr. Wesley was first organized at 
the literal Philadelphia ; Mr. Wesley came over to this 
Israel and to the tribe of Judah in 1736. On the 4th day 
of July, 177G, the two lines whicli meet in Lamech from 
Adam, at PhiladeljDhia as civil and soul laws, met each forty 
years from Judah at Philadelphia. Each of these are the 
seventh, to agree with David the seventh son of Jessee. 
These two are Joseph and Benjamin, the summaries of 
God's laws. As in the acts of the literal Jacob in entering 
Esau's land, Eachel and her children came in the rear of 
Leah and her children; so in this land those that stand for 
Rachel, were forty years in the rear of the last tribe of Leah, 
as Judah or Georgia. All the other churches of this land 
are Leah's (as will be seen.) save that one that dates from 
Judah to Philadelj^hia, in the first settlement. 

At the birth of Benjamin, Rachel died. As a tribe in 
this land Benjamin is the '^ Lone Star, Texas," and the lit- 
eral Israel moves not more uniformly with the law of Moses, 
in the history of the world, than does this literal tribe in 
this land move with the law of the land, as first set up at 
Philadelphia. 

If the literal Jerusalem was built between the tribes of 
Judah and Benjamin, as the two tribes at which Leah " left 
bearing, and at which Rachel died." So will it be seen that 
the laws of God for whicli the literal Jerusalem stood, are 
again brought back in this national Judah. between the 
tribes of Judah and Benjamin, as the last of the first settle- 
ment of the Israel of law, and then the last of the second 
••settl-ement of the Israel of both law and gospel. 

Joseph, to whom the "birthright is given among the 
sons of Jacob," stands for the church, and at whose birth it 
was said, " Send me away to my country and my people," 
was the church of John AVesley, first sent away from Eng- 
land as " the earth that helped the woman," and was first 
set up at Philadelphia. This church was sent away because 
in this land it was oro;anized into a different form from that 
held by the land from which it was sent. At the second send- 
ing of this Joseph in this land at the end of twenty-four hun- 
dred years, according to the reading of the seventy, the 
church of John, the forerunner, as John Wesley, whose 



38 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

mother was Elizabeth, agreeing with the literal types, which 
Elizabeth was the head of the Church of England. As the 
literal John brought his disciple Andrew to Christ, so the 
church of John Wesley was brought by Andrew in the per- 
son of Bishop James Andrew, who was born of the tribe of 
Judah or Georgia in this land. The accounts concerning 
Seth are doubled. It is intentional. One accounts says : 
" Seth begat Enos, then began men to call upon the name of 
the Lord." It has been seen that Seth in the line of gos- 
pel descent stands for the ceremonial law, and Enos for the 
gospel of Christ, whose first Apostle was Andrew. If in 
this land that which stands as Lamech, or the church set up 
at Philadelphia, it will represent the church of Wesley. If 
Enos be taken as the son of this Seth, it is the church of 
Grod in this land founded upon Andrew out of Judah, the 
same as the gospel given in Shem, or the Israel of law. 

Two things are to be done, God's forms of civil law and 
church law, and both are to be in agreement with these as 
given in the literal Israel. The "pillow of fire and cloud" 
guided the literal Israel not more certainly than their acts 
guide the Israel of Japheth in this land of his enlargement 
over Shem. 

Other symbolic characters must be applied to Israel's 
history before coming to the tribes of this land. The liter- 
al Jacob was the father of the literal Israel in Asia or in 
Canaan as the land of Shem. The literal Jacob is the liter- 
al character to symbolize the movements of '' God the Holy 
Ghost," proceeding from the father and the son represent- 
ing Abraham and Isaac. It was in Isaac the seed were to 
be called to fill the covenants set with Abraham. Isaac had 
two sons, Jacob and Esau. Ever}- man born into the world 
is by nature Hairy Esau. As such he has a natural law tor 
the body and a natural religion. Jacob must in every man 
twice supplant this Esau. "These two times has my brother 
supplanted me," is the language of Esau. Smooth Jacob 
must supplant Esau in his natural law, that says kill, steal, 
covet, &c. "Wrestling Israel " must supplant Hairy Esau 
in his natural or outward religion. Man must get religion, 
and then do religion. This is the law of God, and this is 
the theological part of the subject, which belongs not to the 
enquiry in hand. Esau, the first born son of Isaac, was en- 
titled to the literal Israel, but Jacob got that. Eed Esau 
got first into this land of North America, as the place of the 
Japhetic Israel, and Jacob has driven him from that. Esau 
is to gospel Israel as Ham to Shem and Japheth, with this 
difference in their natures: — 

While Ham can be made obedient to the laws of God, 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 30 

that '-man shall live in the sweat of his face,'" the love of the 
" quiver and the bow " in Eed Esau, is too great for him to 
conform to this law of the Creator. The normal relation of 
Ham as a servant acting in obedience to the laws of God, 
has given him possession of the land of Eed Esau, and Esau 
is in a fair way to be exterminated. IS'ot only will the red 
man be driven out, but Hairy Esau, as the man that lives by 
the sword, will also be driven out, by Jacob, moving as God 
the Holy Ghost. 

The symbolic character of Jacob must follow that of 
Isaac. As Isaac is the Christ the Son offered, Jacob must 
follow Isaac. As the son was offered at the close of law 
^iven to Shem, Jacob must tind his correspondents in gosj^el 
Israel given to Japheth. As there were two settlements to 
make in the Japhetic Israel — once as law to agree with 
Moses, and once as gospel to agree with Christ, when the 
twelve aj)Ostles w.ere to sit on " twelve thrones judging the 
twelves tribes " — the s^'mbolic acts of the literal Jacob must 
be twice used in making the settlement. When Jacob left 
his father's house, and camped for the night, he saw a ladder 
that reached from '• earth to heaven," upon which the angels 
of God ascended and descended. AVhen he awoke, he 
erected a pillow of stones and poured oil upon it, as a note 
of attention, that there was a S3"mbolic meaning in the act. 
This act symbolized that the " bond-woman," or ceremonial 
law, would be sent back to her mistress in the gospel dispen- 
sation, which was done in the seven sacraments of Rome. 

These carried people to heaven, by the ladder of Jacobs 
or by doing things. These ceremonies in the Gospel Israel, 
lasted until the time came for the day to break at the refor- 
mation. After Jacob had gathered up his family in the ser- 
vice of Laban, and started to return to his father's house, he 
crossed the brook Jabbok, and then recrossed alone; and 
there came an angel and wrestled with him. Jacob wrestled 
the long night, symbolizing the long night when the woman 
or law of God was hid in the convent of the monks of Rome. 
He cried, '-let me go to the day: the day breaketh," — sym- 
bolizing the reformation, when the woman would begin to 
shed her light. He got a blow upon his thigh in the contest, 
and halted upon it. This is the inquisition when the joints 
of the victim were dislocated. The angel asked, " What is 
thy name ?" " My name is Jacob." The reply was " Thou art 
no longer Jacob, but Israel." It was John Wesley who came 
into Red Esau's land as did Jacob, a member of the church 
of England, the same as Jacob was of the ceremonial law, 
and who came into the tribe of Judah as the last of the 
tribes that came from England and then returned to " wres- 



40 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

tie with the angel," as did Jacob, and in the wrestle said he 
felt his heart " strangely warmed." This then is the place 
at which Jacob was changed to Israel. It is the same place 
at which Saria, the law of gospel, was changed to Sarah. It 
was here that Isaac, the child of promise, as the soul, was 
born again. This is the place for the rise of Eebecca, the 
gospel church. It began with preaching in the field, the 
place where God the son, as Isaac, met Eebecca "coming in 
the field." This was the time of the release of Sarah by 
the king of Egypt, in gospel given to Japheth, the same as 
in law given to Shem. Sarah was restored to Abraham, 
with all that Abraham had, at the rise of the Israel of law 
given to Japheth; Sarah, the law of gospel, is twice captured, 
once by Egypt, and once by Abimilech. Eebecca, the 
church of gospel, is once captured, and that is by Abimilech. 
We shall find who this Abimilech is before we are done. 
Turning to the prophet Daniel, "How long shall the sanc- 
tuary and the host be trodden under foot?" And he said 
unto, " Two thousand and three hundred days : then shall 
the sanctuary be cleansed," The translation oftheLXX 
read it twenty-four hundred in place of twenty-three hun- 
dred, (Bishop Newton.) No point is made from which to 
date the prophecy, hence it must date from the time it was 
given. Dr. A. Clark dates it at 553 B. C. ; Calmet at 557. 
This is near enough. The cleansing of the sanctuary not 
only had resi)ect to the cleansing of the heart, but also to 
the organization of the church, in which none but the 
Levites should take down the ark and set it up. The sanc- 
tuary had to be doubly cleansed, both at twenty-three hun- 
dred years, and also at twenty-four hundred, according to 
the double reading of the original. A day is a year. Dating 
the prophecy at 556 B. C. or between Drs. Clark and Cal- 
met, it would end in 1744, i. e. 550 by 1744—2300. The 
year 1744 was the time of the first conference ever held by 
the Eev. J. Wesley, with six preachers, at the cannon 
foundary in London. This was Melchisede, priest of the 
most high God, born without father or mother. Not by any 
line of procreation, but by the power of an endless lite. 
The sanctuary needed a second cleansing in this land, be- 
cause Mr. Wesley did not conform in outward laws to Moses 
and Christ in his organization of the church. There 
were two defects in his church. These were pointed 
out in the second cleansing in this land at the end of 
2400 years, or in 1844. Until the civil law for the body 
and church law for the soul, both harmonize upon the divine 
plan, there can be no peace. The nearer they ayjproach, the 
more desperate the contest. Let these thoughts pass for the 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 41 

present. Let us now turn to the literal acts of the literal 
Judah of whom '• the Christ came," and apply these to gospel 
Israel given to Ja2:)heth. While the literal Israel as Shem, 
is represented by Benjamin, gospel Israel is Judah. Christ 
came of Judah and gave the gospel. This gospel church 
was named "Tamer," after the only daughter, the literal 
David, the type of the gospel church, had. When the ten 
persecutions of the dragon of Pagan Eome had well nigh 
driven this Tamer out of the world, Judah standing as the 
law of the church, appointed Ex to keep up the succession. 
This Er was wicked and God slew him. Judah then ap- 
pointed Onan to keep up the succession, and he would not. 
Tamer had the promise of the other and last son of Judah 
^8 the law of the gospel. This son was Shelah, but she 
never got him. As the literal keeps up with the symbolic, 
Shelah turned monk in tlie person of Anthony, the first 
Monk, about the close of the third or the beginning of the 
fourth century. (Historians are not agreed in facts.) Judah 
who stood as the head of the church of gospel, turned poli- 
tician in the person of Constantine, and ordered an election 
of Bishops, and converted Tamer into an harlot. The elec- 
tion did not turn upon those most worthy to fill the office, 
but upon those who could furnish the finest tables, and the 
most luxuriant dishes. None can read Gibbon in reference 
to this election, but will be struck at once with the saying 
of Judah, "Take this kid to the harlot Tamer." 

God never leaves himself without a witness. If the 
churches' historians refuse to testify to his truth as set in his 
types, he will make the stones speak. Skeptics are often 
better witnesses of God's truth than are those who set 
themselves to be its defenders. The messenger to bear the 
kid returned and said, " There was no harlot there;" Judah 
said, " There was a harlot there." This question has been 
debated in the world from that day to this. Did Tamer be- 
come a harlot, or did she not? The types preceding this 
will settle it in favor of Judah, that there was a harlot there. 
Elijah stands as Christ, and Elisha, upon whom he threw 
his mantle, is the twelve Apostles. Elijah found Elisha 
plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he with the twelfth. 
These twelve are one patriarch and one apostle that make 
one yoke. Elisha turned back and sacrificed one yoke with 
their instruments. This one yoke stood for the whole twelve. 
These were Dinah among the patriarchs, and Paul among 
the Apostles. As this yoke stood for the tw^elve, so Elisha 
stood for the whole. When the one yoke was sacrificed the 
whole was lost. Gospel Judah, whose business it was to 
speak from tlje ground, like the blood of Abel or the Mai^-: 



42 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

ter, put off his grave cloths and changed the hiw of Abel 
into that of Cain, and in this relation beo-at two illeiritemate 
sons, by the harlot Tamer, m the persons of Phares and 
Zarah. or the Latin and Greek churches. As the literal 
brothers stru2:2:led to see which should be born first, so did 
these brothers strua'o-le up to the ninth century to see which 
should be born first. The one as Zarah, or the Greek's, that 
seemed as if he should be born first, and made heavy threats 
against his brother, was at last preceded by his brother 
Phares. or the Latins, who holdino- his seat at Pome thun- 
dered against his brother at Constantinople, and ex-commu- 
nicated the patriarch and his whole 23atriarchate. The line 
of God's succession to bring forth the literal Pavid was 
through Phares. the fir^it born son of Judah : so in gospel 
given to Japheth. it must be through the Latin's, as Phares, 
the first born of Judah's twins. 

This church, as Tamer, stands as Pahab to literal Israel. 
It was Pahab that saved the twelve spies in the literal Israel; 
only two of which were needed to stand for the twelve. It 
is the Latins or Western church that was represented by 
ten kingdoms, as Goths, Osthagoths, Franks, Allmen, &:c.y 
that stand for ten of these spies as literal governments^ 
while the two that she hid in the crypt of the convent, are 
Joshua and Caleb, as Old and Xew Testament. This Tamer, 
or Pahab, or Xaamah, or Xaomi is the mother of Puth and 
Orpah. The line of God's succession is through Puth, as the 
Church of Eno-land. that followed the mother-in-law. The 
gospel Israel, as Judah, in the land of Japheth in Europe, 
make the feet of that Judah from between which the law- 
giver was to come. The j^olitical feet of this Judah are the 
seventh head of Eno-land as Cromwell, and the seventh of 
Pome as ZSTajDoleon Bonaparte. 

Between the tra2:ical endins^ of Charles of En£rland and 
the Bourbons of France, under the Jacobins, at which times 
the scepter left Judah. in Europe the Israel of law in the 
land of Japheth's enlargement, as the Ignited States, arose. 
So between the feet of gospel Judah. headed by Puth or 
Elizabeth, as Episcopal, and Congregational Orpah as the 
Puritan Cromwell, standino; for all the Cono^rescational 
churches, came the church of AVesley for this land with a 
Bishop for its head. The law-giver was to come from •• be- 
tween the feet of Judah," standing for gospel Israel. 

Several other lines in God's succession deserve to be 
considered. The smallest amount of light recpiired to set 
the prophetic times, is all that can be indulged in this 
synopsis. It was Simeon, the second son of Jacob, standing 
for the second or gospel Israel, that united with Levi as the 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 43"- 

church that " dug down a wall " that God had set up hetweeii 
the two, and joined them together. Simeon and Levi when 
joined together are always "cruel." When Dinah, the church, 
conformed the Shichemites to gospel, Avhich was symbolized 
by having them circumcised, these cruel brothers took ad- 
vantage of their soreness, or of the doctrines of the gospel, 
" Thou shalt not kill," "Blessed are the merciful," and slew 
them, saying, " Shall they corrupt our sister?" Shall they 
corruy)t our church ? Those whom they slew are the blood 
of "Righteous Abel speaking from the ground." These- 
cruel brothers are still united, and " Abel is speaking from, 
the ground." The souls under the altar are still crying, 
" How long, Lord, before our blood shall be avenged." 
The time for the vindication of God's martyred witnesses, 
and laws draweth near. Rest a little longer. The God 
who gave them, is where he was, and there he will remain. 
The ship is not without its pilot, nor the stage without the 
driver. 

Job is the image of God's church drawn by God him- 
self. It would be a pleasant task to show who his three 
friends are, that desired to mend his way of serving God, 
and show the four times they reply to Job, when they are 
older than Job, or pagan friends ; and also the four replies 
they make, when Job is older than they, or when the laws 
that make Job are finished. As there is no difficulty in 
doing this, or in telling who his fourth or last friend Elihu 
is, and as it does not have an important bearing upon the main 
question of telling that symbolic sense as the representa- 
tives of laws which God attached to the twelve tribes, we 
pass by Job, with a simple enquiry into his seven sons. The 
seven sons of Job are the seven literal acts or characters of 
God to bring forth his form of civil law for the head, or 
body of man, taken in its collective sense ; these are Abra- 
ham, Isaac, Jacob, Israel, aivided by the sale of Joseph,. 
Israel united by Joseph in Egypt, with Joseph exalted to- 
power ; Moses, the law-giver of Israel for both body and 
soul ; judges of whom Joshua was first to represent the 
whole. These are the seven heads to make the law for col- 
lective Israel. 

When Israel left the law of these seven, it was under 
"solemn protest," yet it was to bring forth another seven, 
of which the first seven were the type to give God's law for 
the bride or church. These seven are, Saul, David, Solo- 
mon, Israel, divided with the two tribes ; Benjamin and 
Judah, in captivity, to Babylon, the same as Joseph was in 
Egypt ; Israel, exalted in Babylon by Daniel, interpreting 
the dreams of the king as did Joseph, and Israel allowed to 



44 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

re-build the temple the same as Joseph's brethern came to 
him. The sixth head is Christ agreeing with Moses, and 
the seventh are the apostles, of whom Andrew was first. 
These twice seven counted heads are one, and they are 
Ood's forms of laws for the double man of his creation. 
Nothing less than these will make David. Each is the 
seventh, and the union of the two will stand as Solomon, 
the last type of God's laws, and as the " eighth of the seven." 
There were fourteen civil judges of the literal Israel giving 
to these twice seven heads one judge each. These judges 
were presidents, chosen by the people according to thelaw 
of Moses. These fourteen judges were the following: 
Joshua, Othdal, Ehu, Shamgar, Barek, Gideon, Abimilech,, 
Tola, Jair, Jeptha, Ibson, Elon, Abdon, Samson. These are 
the fourteen civil presidents of the Israel of law, which 
gives one judge to the twice counted seven heads. These 
leave out 'Deborah, Samuel, Eli and sons, because they are 
representatives of the church and of her action in Israel. 
Let it be observed that the first is Joshua, and the seventh 
is Abimilech, and the last is Samson. The seventh is uni- 
formly the turning point in Israel's history. Let^us now 
track these through Pagan Rome, Papal Eome, England 
iind the United States, as the Israel of law given to Japheth. 
Pagan Eome swallowed up the Israel of Shem, and as she 
belonged to Japheth or gospel Israel, the count must come 
throu2:h her. What has been her forms of laws and who is 
the bride to her ? The civil heads of Pagan Eome, were 
kings, consuls, dictators, decemvere's triumvinis, heathen, 
emperors, under the Casars; Christian emperors, under Con- 
stantine. In the days of St. John, five of these heads had 
fallen or passed away. 

The apostle said " One is, and one is yet to come, and 
w^hen he cometh he must continue for a short space." The 
sixth head was the one that then was, which was the Impe- 
rial h^ad under Nero Cajsar. The one to come, was the 
Christian head under Constantine, who united the seventh 
head of gospel with the sixth of Eome, and thus made the 
seventh.^ The Christian head continued a short space, be- 
-cause in Julian, the nephew of Constantine, he apostatised 
tfrem the faith of his uncle. As the churches' head was re- 
vived again, it became " the eighth that was of the seven," 
sind Papal Eome stands as the bride to Pagan Eome. What 
now are the seven heads of " Papal Eome?" Eome divided 
between East and West. The West broken into ten king- 
doms, granting civil powers to the Pope. " The little horn 
that plucked up three civil powers by the roots." The Pope 
for the first time placing the purple upon Pepin of France. 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 45< 

The Pope placing the crown upon Charles the Y of Spain at 
the time, for the day to break, or at the reformation. The 
prolestant head of England, tearing away from the Pope in. 
the reign of Elizabeth — Napoleon Bonaparte assuming- 
authority over the Pope of Eome. These seven heads are- 
represented by the literal seven mountains upon which 
Eome was built, while the seven of Pagan Eome are repre- 
sented by the seven sons of Japheth. Henry the YIII of 
England, acted the double part of Eome, and Euth, to rep- 
resent the action of his two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. 

That Elizabeth is chosen instead of her father to repre- 
sent Protestant England, is shown by the act of G-od in the- 
settlement of the two tribes in this land of the literal, bear- 
ing the names of the daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. 

What have been the seven heads of England, which was- 
separated from Eome to make the feet of Judah or Grospel, 
given to Japheth. the same as the two tribes. Benjamin and 
Judah, made the feet of Judah, between which the law-giver 
came at the close of law given to Shem? 

These are Barbarians, Eomans, Saxons, Danes, Nor- 
mans — a constitutional monarchy granting toleration under 
Elizabeth — a military theoratic despotism under the Puritan 
Cromwell. This last name is given for the want of a more 
appropriate one to conve}^ the sense. 

As in the case of Julian, the seventh head of Pagan 
Eome went back to the sixth ; so it was in England, the 
seventh head under Cromwell went back to the sixth. The 
same is true in reference to Bonaparte. The seventh head 
went back to the sixth as the Bourbons. The seventh in 
each " continued for a short space.'' Louis Napolean stands 
now the eighth seventh revived head of West Eome, as Na- 
polean Bonaparte was the seventh. We come now to the 
Israel of law in the land of Japheth's enlargement as the 
United States. 

The seven heads of law are Sj^ain, France, England. 
A scattered head, when sovereignty rested with the States. 
A united head, when the union was formed. A divided head 
at the Missouri Compromise, upon the doctrine of " States 
Eights." A head of forcible consolidation, upon both civil' 
and moral questions as at present. Each side claimed for- 
cible consideration. The one over the whole land, the other 
in its separate jurisdiction, by prohibiting any but slave- 
holding States into the Union. These seven heads apply 
alike to either side of the dividing line, and are thus twice 
counted as in the Israel from Shem. When the prophet says : 
" I will restore your judges as at first." It not only means 
they shall be chosen by the people, as in literal Israel, but 



46 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

"it means there shall be the same in number to represent 
the twice seven counted heads. It means that there shall 
be seven out of one wing, and seven out of the other. The 
seven to represent the Southern w^ing are, Washington, Jef- 
ferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, Polk. The seven 
tto represent the other are, John Adams, J. Q. Adams, Yan 
Buren, Harrison, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan. This does 
not include Zachary Taylor ; the reason is given : Whe 
:Shiloh, as the head of the church, came out of the tribe of 
Judah, in national Judah, that was made up of both Benja- 
anin and Judah, the scepter was to depart from nationa 
Judah. The ten kingdoms of West Eome are the ten tribes 
as Ephraim, The United States stood for both Benjam 
and Judah, in its undivided form. In their divided for 
the South is national Judah, and the North is Benjamin. 
Leah retook the husband from Eachel at the coming of the 
Jtribe of Zubulon or Florida, in 1821, that she might separate 
Benjamin and Judah in this land, which was done by the Mis- 
souri Compromise, set up that same year. Law was shown by 
the first settlement of Leah, which ended with the tribe of Ju- 
dah, or Georgia — National Judah alone was required to point 
out both law and gospel. 

David, as civil law, w\as put up at Philadelphia. This 
"was David with seven wdves. In order to find which one of 
the seven stood for the bride to David, or civil law, it was ne- 
cessary for Leah to bring forth National Judah. 

As the Shiloh, ahead of the church, came of the tribe of 
Judah in the person of the Rev. James Andrew, in 1844-6, the 
time had come for the scepter to leave National Judah as the 
South. Law always closes with James. The Apostle James 
is law. Law had gone through this land in the length of it 
and breadth of it, "at the close of the last Southern or seventh 
judge, as James K. Polk. That which began with Washing- 
ton, at the Atlantic Ocean, had landed at the Pacific Ocean. 
God had said, when Shiloh came, the scepter should depart. 
Gen. Taylor was elected out of Judah, contrary to the law of 
God, in 1848, hence he is not reckoned among the judges. 
Zachary Taylor fills three important characters in Israel. He 
is the Zachariah, the son of Jeroboam the second. He is 
Zachariah the prophet, slain between the temple and the 
altar. He is the prophet Zachariah, of whom Christ speaks as 
the first righteous blood that was shed. He stands as the first 
martyr to God's broken laws. We cannot enter here into a 
question of such deep interest. Forcible, Saul, as a civil law, 
had intruded upon David as the law of God. Rachel died at 
the birth of Benjamin, as Texas. 

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THE MYSTERY EINISUED. 47 

more territory. That which began witli Abimilcch as the 
seventh judge, agreeing with Andrew Jackson, the seventh in 
this land, bad come to be a king of force for which Saul stood. 
The law for which Abraham stood as the first head of law, 
was changed into the first king by the will of man, and God 
called it Saul. This Saul came of national Benjamin ; this 
Saul is the product of the seventh head of EngLand, as the 
Puritan Cromwell, representing in this land the Plymouth 
colony. The other seventh head as Bonaparte of France, 
represents the Orleans territory. These two sevenths, 
standing for gospel given to Japheth in Europe, are the ex- 
tremes of this Israel of law in the land of Japheth's en- 
largement. The one looked upon man as wholly a literal 
being or beast, and had the right to eat and drink, because 
•'death was an eternal sleep." The other regarded him as 
wholly a supernatural being, and it was right to punish a 
man for kissing his wife on Sundav. If the one has no law 
but that of nature, the other allows no bod}' to the law of 
God, but takes it all to be spiritual — neither of these are 
David ; David has both a bod}' and a soul — a civil and a 
church law. If for the church, he has a Joshua, and an An- 
drew, ho has for the body a Jefferson and a Hambleton. If 
David has not his same soul or church at his second an- 
nointing, by national Judah, in Xaphtali. as the place of 
Hachcrs triumph, he has another Jefi'erson and Hambleton 
coming out of literal Judah, or ''between his feet," to rep- 
resent the body. Perhaps the reader will think we write 
enigmatically — then let him study to solve the enigma. All 
things are not expedient in this land of peace. "That de- 
termined upon shall be accomplished." The seven times 
seven heads of nations make forty nine, and (Jod's jubilee 
lias come, in which he means to vindicate his own laws for 
his creation — man. These seven nations are the seven 
pillows, which wisdonfhas hewn out. one out which to build 
her house, in order to the reign of Solomon. It was the 
earth '• that helped the woman or Bible," 

trThe trinity of heads as Spain, France, England, which 
stand as the trinity of Abraham. Isaac Jacob, or Saul, David. 
Soloman, to literal Israel, are as Moon, Sun. Earth. Spain 
is the world's literal Moon, France is the literal Sun. France 
attains the highest perfection in all things that the merely 
intellectual man can reach. Briton is guided more by the 
laws of God, and hence "the earth." The minature world 
"helped the woman." Out of Briton came the hnvs to make 
David. David was annointed as the eight son of Jessee ; 
David stood as the summary of the seven. The seven forms 
of government which Enirlfirxl ^i^<^- stand as the seven sons 



48 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

of Jessee. The prophet asked Jessee, when passing his 
sons under review, ''Are these all thy sons." The answer 
was, " The youngest is with the sheep out in the yvilderness." 

England had passed through every form of govern- 
ment, both from without and within, but she had organ- 
ized a different form from any of these for her colonies in 
the wilderness — this form consisted of "local charters. This 
was the form for David. The literal Israel were forbid to 
carry "the inheritance,'' or laws of one tribe into those of 
another. This was God's provision to settle Israel after her 
" old estates," and hence this was David. Each tribe in 
Israel had its local Elders, and then a Sanhedrim to repre- 
ssnt the whole upon questions that pertained to all the 
tribes alike. The literal David came at the end of fourteen 
generations, from " Abraham to David." 

The seven heads of Papal Eome, in the land of Japheth, 
and the seven of England, make fourteen, to the rit;e of 
David upon the form of " local charters." From David to 
the captivity were fourteen. 

The seven presidents, or heads in this land, from the 
North, and the seven from the South, make fourteen, and 
Israel is in captivity. Fourteen are yet lacking, which 
must come in one cycle of Orion, or eighty-four years from 
1860-1, which will give to each judge, or head, six years. 
Let this pasis. Out of Briton, or the earth that combine 
both sun and moon, not only came David as the civil, but 
David as the soul law. As she sent the civil law of David 
away, differing from any law she had had, so she sent the 
soul law that stood for David, differing from anything she 
had had. These make Joseph, at whose birth it is said, 
" Send me away to my people and country." The church 
of John, the forerunner, was organized with a bishop for 
its head, yet not diocesian. This two was the seventh to 
agree with David. The seven churches, as wives of David, 
are the Puritan, of Massachusetts ; the Baptist, of Ehode 
Island ; the Dutch Eeformed, of New York ; the Quaker, of 
Pennsylvania; the Catholic, of Maryland; the church of 
England, as Virginia ; the church of Wesley, dating from 
Georgia to Philadelphia. " Kings and their Queens not 
only had to be the nurses " of the " Pestered Japhetic 
Israel," but the religion of the king or queen, was also to 
represent the religion of the tribe for which these stood. 
The mother-in-law, Naamah, which dates from church and 
State union, under Gonstantine, as " Tubalcain and his sis- 
ter, Naaraah," and which was the first form of the church 
after Cain or the Israel of law, was cast out, is the same as 
Naomi or Pome, and is represented by Catholic Mary, or 



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THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 49* 

Catholic Maryland. The daughter that followed the mother 
as Ruth, is Elizabeth, or Yirginia, (the virgin queen.) Orpha 
standing for all the Congregational churches, represents, 
the Puritan, of Massachusetts ; the Baptist, of Rhode 
Island ; the Dutch Reformed, of New York ; the Q.uaker, 
of Pennsylvania. The head to represent these coming from 
England was Cromwell. 

AYe are debtor to Rev. C. Elliot for saying George the 
III was a " Wesleyan Methodist," representing the tribe of 
Judah or Georgia, at which tribe Leah left bearing. Louisi- 
ana, bearing the name of Louis XIY, is the tribe to repre- 
sent the religion of France, when pursuing the laws of na- 
ture, and burning the Bible, " the vSun became as black as 
sackcloth of hair." 

Not only did " the earth," or England, help the women 
in showing how Israel would be settled according to the 
teachings of " the woman," but she was the chosen Egypt 
as the place of learning to overcome the confusion of 
Babylon. James is law. When her own King James gath- 
ered together all the teachings of the w^oman, and had them 
put into a book and translated into a " pure language," the 
confusion of Babel was overcome ; nothing has been added 
since. God's symbols say (the book) was finished. There 
is no need to go back to Egypt or Babylon, to learn the 
truth. It is written in God's own Book, and God's history. 

It is from the book that the truth is learned that Abra- 
ham moves as "the Father," Isaac as "the Son," and Jacob as. 
" God the Holy Ghost." Men will never learn from Babylon 
the difference which God makes between Baal and Balak^ 
and Balaam and Baalzebub, and Jerrubaal, nor will they 
learn the difference between Eli and Elijah, and Elisha, and 
Eliphaz, and Elihu, and Elizabeth and Elias. There are a 
number of things that cannot be learned from Babylon. 
Men must come to Jerusalem to learn — God will be the 
teacher. lie is the only Rabbi. If England was less cor- 
rupted with the one language of mystical Babylon than any 
nation in the land of Japheth, or gospel Israel, it is because 
she was the farthest removed from the seat of Babylon. It 
is, perhaps, due to this fact that she was the first to throw 
off the yoke of Babylon. That she was God's chosen land 
to provide the great principles of laws to rule in the Japhetic 
Israel, is the demonstrative truth. It is her own Usher that 
has givea the best chronology of the " woman " the world 
has had, because the nearest conformed to the demonstra- 
tive facts. 

As Ham had to serve Japheth in the land of his en- 
largement, in accordance with the second covenant set with 



50 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Abraham, it is England's firstprotestantand greatest queen, 
that was used as an instrument to "help the woman," and 
she traded in the persons of Ham. 

As the Israel from Shem had been trained in Egypt for 
the nationality in Canaan, so the Israel from Japheth with 
ail the laws to govern it, came out of Egypt or Briton, aa 
" the earth that helped the woman," Joshua, the first judge 
of the literal Israel came of Ephraim as the ten tribes ; so 
'George Washington, the first judge of the Japhetic Israel, 
stood as the embodiment of all that was good, or noble, or 
praiseworthy, that had been brought forth by the ten king- 
doms of West Europe, as Ephraim. 

The doctrines of Magna Charter, habeas corpus, tolera- 
tion, or what not, met in him. He was ever distrustful of 
himself, yet was found equal to any task, whether great or 
small, laid upon him. 

If the name of Joshua was changed from that of Oshua, 
the name of Washington was changed to that of " the fath- 
er of his country," not to mention any other change. If 
Joshua implies the deliverer, the other was the deliver. If 
the first presided over thirteen tribes, counted as twelve, so 
•did the other. If the first was seen all alone talking with 
« man with a drawn sword, and asked him, " Art thou for 
us or our enemies;" and he was commanded to "Loose the 
shoes from thy feet, for the ground upon which thou standest 
is holy ;" " I am come as the captain of the Lord's hosts." 
The other was seen all alone, on bended knees, talking with 
Ood. If the first had no literal children, but had the car© 
of all Israel, the same is true of the other. 

If the law-giver (Moses) of the first did not enter the 

land of Canaan, but stood upon Nebo and looked over all 

the land, it was to re2:>resent the law-giver (Christ) of the 

second who is higher than Moses, and looks not only over 

^11 the land, but looks, and sees, and knows all things that 

•every one is doing, whether openly or in secret, and who 

intends to find out every Achan in Israel before it is done. If 

Joshua in making his farewell address to Israel, tells them 

how God brought them "across the flood," and settled them 

in the land, it was the nation of the other, that in very 

truth had come " across the flood," as the Atlantic Ocean, 

and gave to the Japhetic Israel his dying charge. If the 

Israel of the first which came from Shem, had fourteen civil 

judges,' and then two kings, as therei:)rcscntatives of human 

and divine laws, so the Israel of the second, given to Japheth, 

has had fourteen civil judges, and then two kings, as Saul 

and David, to represent the laws of God and the laws of 

man. If the Israel of the first extended over a space of 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 51 

many hundred years in setting the types to bring forth the 
laws of God, that met on "the Christ," the Israel of the 
second has done in eighty-four years, or in one day, or one 
cycle of Orion, what it required a month of cycles to do in 
the other. This month of cycles includes the whole of God's 
indignation against Israel, and is 2520 years. The last end 
of the indignation is 1260 years. The count begins with 
the center head of the forty-nine, as the '* little horn " that 
come up among the ten horns, or kingdoms of West Rome, 
and that claimed both civil and soul laws, and in accordance 
with this claim placed the crown on Pepin of France. 
Three times and a half, are three and one-half of the seven 
nations, each with seven heads, and are forty-two months or 
1260 years, or forty-two literal years, or if counted as an 
hour, are the twenty-fourth part of eighty-four years, or 
three years and a half, as the length of time for God's wit- 
nesses to be dead. If power was given into the hands of 
this horn, which claimed both departments of the kingdom 
in the years 606-8, then the church as one witness should 
stand upon its feet in 1866, and the civil in 1868. Let these 
thought pass for the present. • 

if the Israel of the first Joshua divided into two parts, 
between ten tribes and two tribes, not only that the two that 
stood for the laws of God, might bring forth "the Christ," 
but also that the ten might show how gospel Israel would 
act in the second half of Israel in the land of Japheth oi 
Europe, so the Israel of the second Joshua has divided be- 
tween ten tribes and four tribes, not only to show that the 
ten will act in accordance with the ten in the Israel of 
Shem, or in that of Japheth in Eome, while the four will 
not only bring forth the laws of God, but will show what 
have been the four formsunder which the church has moved, 
Aud will stand as the four books of law given by Moses, or 
four books of gospel given by Christ, or as the world's four 
law-givers, or as th© four first-born sons of Leah. These 
four are the four|original tribes of this Israel, common to 
both the first and second settlement of Israel. That is, the 
Israel of law and the Israel of both law and gospel. Like 
as it required gospel Israel to explain that of law, so it re- 
quires this second settlement of Israel, in the land of Japheth 
to explain the first as law. The tribes of the first can only 
be understood as they hold relation to the second. If in 
the investigation we should use the word " Confederacy," it 
is out of no disrespect to God's prophet, which says, "Say ye 
not a confederacy, a confedracy, but sanctify the Lord of hosts 
and let him be your fear." 

The four tribes or States, common to both settlements of 



52 THE MYSTERY EINISHED. 

this Israel, are Yirginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and' 
Georgia. These are : 

Yirginia as Eeuben. 

North Carolina as Simeon. 

South Carolina as Levi. 

Georgia as Judah. 

This is the manner in which they have been transferred 
out of Israel's past history. Of Levi came the law-giver,. 
Moses; of Judah, came the law-giver, Christ. These are 
South Carolina and Georgia. The laws for which these 
stand are the two wings with which the cherubim covers 
his face. These are the only two of the first settlement of 
this Japhetic Israel, found among the seven in Avhich Eachel 
triumphed as the "seven eyes of God." Among the seven 
that cut the stone (as the laws of God) out of the mountain, 
will be found the six Avings of the cherubim, "with twain he- 
covered his feet." This twain are Joseph and Benjamin, 
symbolically the very same as the two first. Joseph is the 
church and Benjamin is law ; as a literal tribe, he is Texas. 
If the church came in 1844, Benjamin came in 1845. The 
twain with which he did fly are the twain with which God 
has moved. They are Moon and Sun ; Spain and France, 
Florida and Louisiana. Florida came in 1821 as the law or 
moon. Forty years from this, in 1861, law prevailed in 
Naphtali. Louisiana came in 1803-4; forty years from this 
cominir, and the gospel Sun came in 1844; the very same 
two that journeyed forty 3^ears from "the earth," as com- 
bining both moon and sun from Judah or Georgia, to Phila- 
delphia, arc the two of Eachel's triumph in Naphtali, both 
as a place and character. This she never could have done 
had she not conformed soul law to civil law. If Moses said, 
Canaan shall serve Japheth, the church had no right to say 
"Slavery was a great evil." The literal Moses had an Ethio- 
pian wife, so the bride to the law of Moses must be an Ethio- 
pian bride, and recognize the law of Moses. When the church 
published her law, leaving out all cond«imnation of slave- 
iholding in 1860-1, and conformed to Moses, Eachel triumphed.. 
The witnesses might have j)utoftHheir sackcloth, but for the 
seven years, as the summary of the seven times, to keej) 
David out of his dominions according to the types. Half of 
which seven times Israel had to fight as law, and half to 
suifer as gospel. 

The four States, common to the double settlement 
of this Israel, include the entire history of Israel. The 
law given by Levi or Moses, and for which the son of Eachel 
as Benjamin stood in its undivided form, became as Eeuben, 
the first-born son of Leah, after it divided. It ceased to be 






THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 53 

Benjamin after Israel divided ; Benjamin is unity, Eeiiben 
is duality ; the gospel given by Judah, standing for Joseph, 
the son of Eachel, became Simeon and Levi, when it united 
State and church in Eome. The law of this Japhetic Israel 
was Benjamin as unity, upon the doctrine of "State rights," 
and Ham, as a servant of tribute, according to Moses, when 
it was first formed. This was the teaching of both Eeuben 
the first, as Virginia, and Simeon the second, or Plymouth 
colony. If these rejected the word (slavery) from the law, 
and softened it down by the term " domestic institutions," it 
was still recognized as the law, by the rendition of the slave 
escaping from one tribe into another. This law also said 
*' Governments were by consent of the governed." The laws 
of God for this Israel of Shem were contradictory. If the 
one said, "Thou shalt not kill ;" the other said, "Without 
the shedding of blood is no remission." This contradiction 
is intentional upon the part of God to show that he is the 
only king. The laws of this Japhetic Israel are also con- 
tradictory. The doctrine of " State rights " is the law of 
Moses or David, or Benjamin. The doctrine that " Govern- 
ments are by consent of the governed," brought forth Saul 
the first king in the Israel of Shem. Tribes cannot be for- 
bidden to carry the inheritance or laws of one into another, 
and then turn and say, " Governments are by consent of the 
governed." In every case it will result as in both the Israel 
from Shem, and that of Japheth. God cannot be the king 
of two such contradictory laws, only for a demonstrative 
purpose. If the law had read, governments are by the con- 
sent of the sons of Japheth, when taken in their tribe or 
State capacity, it would have been the truth, as will be seen 
by the teachings of the children of Eachel in this demon- 
strative Israel. God Xvill add all the plagues of his book to 
men until they cease to mend it. The law of unity, for 
which Benjamin stood in this Israel, was driven out when 
the tribe of Benjamin was driven out. This was done by 
both Eeuben and Simeon, in the persons of James Monroe 
and J. Q. Adams, when they sold Benjamin, or Texas, for 
Florida, in 1821. Florida is Zebulon. This tribe was not 
consulted in reference to whether he would unite with Israel. 
It was a law of force and all intentional upon the part of 
God to make the Israel that should teach both law and gos- 
pel. If Eeuben stands for the two tribes, as under ECho- 
boam that were to bring the Christ, Simeon stands for the 
ten that built " golden "heifers" under Jeroboam ; if Eeuben 
represents the ceremonial law, Simeon, standing for all the 
churches holding to Presbyterian ordination as Levi, and 
uniting with Simeon in this land to worship a great image, 



I 

54 THE MYSTERY FINISHED, 

the same as vS'ineon and Levi united in Eome. The 
gospel which came from Judah. as in Christ, became 
united with Simeon in Eome, and became very cruel. 
So the gospel that dates from Judah in this land, headed by 
Wesley and put up at Philadelphia has become united to 
Simeon in this land, and has become very cruel. This is the 
way God leads Israel to show that he is king, and that God 
and the laws, or word of God, are one. The mending of the 
word of God is the mending of God, or the making of 
another God. 

Simeon is God's hostage to drive Israel to take Benja- 
min ; Simeon in Eome killed the martj^rs as God's witnesses; 
Simeon as " the Spanish Jesuit,'' drove God's Israel to 
the nationality in this land. Simeon, as Plymouth, hag 
again driven Israel to show both law and gosj)el. Eeligion 
is no more free than "governments are by consent." If 
God says, " Ye must be born again," he means what he 
says : Men may for a while climb up some other way, yet 
the book cannot be mended. If God says, Paul was the 
head of all the churches ; God will have a head according to 
his own teaching. Not as an office only, but also as an order, 
to which we will come after awhile. " Simeon and Levi 
shall be scattered in Israel." It is to this demonstrative 
Israel these servants are transferred to fill up this part of 
their history. Taken in this land, to scatter Simeon and 
Levi, they are North and South Carolina. If these four 
tribes be applied to Israel's history, in connection with the 
four books of law as given by Moses, Eeuben is the Exodus,, 
and stands for the beginning of Israel in Egypt. Simeon 
is the Book of Numbers and stands for the second Israel in 
the land of Japhethor Eome, when the God of forces ornum-^ 
bers was the God of men. Levi is Leviticus to represent the 
church both with Eeuben and Simeon. Judah is Duteroni- 
ny, which closes the settlement of Israel and gives the sym^ 
bolic history for which they stand. As this is done in this 
land, it closes the law and " finishes the- mystery." The 
same facts apply to the four books of the evangalists. Mark 
and Luke are only servants to Mathew and John. 

Jacob is God the Holy Ghost. Twq of his wives are- 
only given as servants of the other two. If Leah is Eeuben,. 
Eachel is Judah. These are "the first and the last." Eeuben 
as Virginia, is the first; Judah as Georgia, is the last. If 
Eeuben is law as " State rights," he is not gospel as " Free- 
dom in religion. The law-givers out of Judah or from between 
his feet, as Jefi'erson Davis and A. H. Stevens, hold the same 
law of Eeuben, as " States rights," while Andrew out of 
Judah is given to show not "freedom in religion." but ye 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 55 

must be born again. " Judah is my law-giver." If Reuben 
defiled himself by the ordinance of 1787, saying, Ham should 
not be a servant, then God makes James Andrew of Judah, 
a slaveholder. As Eve had led Adam astray, " the seed of 
the woman or church should triumph," and bring that 
Adam back to the laws of God. It is the civil law for which 
Adam stands, that the church is to bring back. As the 
church has led the world away from the law of Moses, bo 
the church shall bring it back to that law. This is the 
simple sense. 

We have traced the history of Israel from Adam 
through Cain down to the political organization of the 
Japhetic Israel as Lamech at Philadelphia. The church has 
been considered from Eve down through the line of Seth to 
Lamech, and put up at Philadelphia. It has been seen that 
the Meshich from Shem, and theMeshech from Japheth^ 
meet in the land of North America, when Japheth is "en- 
larged over Shem. All that was left of the Israel of Shem 
was the "woman that had the moon under her feet and a 
crown of twelve stars upon her head." This woman is the 
word of God. She was hid in the convents of the Eomish 
Monks till the "breaking of the day" at the reformation. 
She was helped by Briton, as the minature world that gave 
shape and form to the woman. Out o^ her seventh head as 
Cromwell, and her sixth as Elizabeth, which two are Ruth 
and Orpha, between these as the feet of Judah or gospet, 
came John Wesley ; so between the seventh head as Crom- 
well, and the seventh of Rome as Bonaparte, came the Israel 
of law in the twelve tribes of the gospel Israel given to 
Japheth in the land of his enlargement over Shem. These 
laws make David as the civil law, yet it was David with 
seven wives. One wife to represent each of the seven heads 
of law in England, according to all the former types. 

This Israel of Lamech had a double work to do in slay- 
ing an old man. as " the divine right of one man to rule 
upon the doctrine that governments are by consent;" and 
also, a young man that says, "All men have the right to 
rule, and religion must conform to this declaration of the 
natural man. Neither of these are the laws of God as "hus- 
band and bride," and hence Lamech must slay them both. 
If with the Israel of law he slayed the first as one man, it 
is with the Israel of both law and gospel, he will slay the 
second. 

The work on hand is to settle the second Israel, and 
tell that distinct character or thing, for which each of the 
twelve tribes stand. The woman has brought forth the 
man-child to represent the laws of God, and the dragon 



56 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

stands ready to devour him as soon as he is born. The tail 
of the dragon has drawa a third part of the moon, or Israel 
of law, which was made up of twelve tribes. Four is the 
third part ; and a third part of the stars or States, as gos- 
pel. These are the third part, whether counted as ten or as 
eleven, as there were thirty-three States at the division of the 
gospel church, or whether as twelve or the third part of 
thirty-six as at present. The dragon says these shall follow 
his lead. This dragon is the " Nahash " that was begotten 
by Adam and Eve, in the first test act of God with man. 
In the second test act, he was shown in the natural man 
Ham. lie was again presented in Esau. In the se-^^enth 
head of Papal Eome, he was presented in the form of the 
"French infidelity." In this land, he is called ''the dragon;" 
his right name is Haman or Ham-man, or the national man 
in contrast with the laws of Grod as set in Abraham. 

It is an act of sovereignty with God to make one party 
represent his laws as written, and another the law of the 
" Nahash " or natural man. This is the way he moves to 
represent his laws and human laws. As the Israel of law 
given to Shem, united with the eagle of Pagan Eome to kill 
"the Christ" or man-child, so the eagle of America, as the 
Israel of law given to Japheth, has left the law and killed 
the nation to take the law as the man-child which " the 
woman " has brought forth. God has said it should go just 
that way. God hath put it into the hearts of the ten horns, 
or ten toes, or ten tribes, called horns, because they are the 
opposite of the ten commandments of Moses, or Benjamin, 
" to give their power and strength to the beast," or Nahash 
or dragon, until they should compel Israel to demonstrate 
the laws of God. 

Let us apply the image of JSTebuchadnizzard as inter- 
preted by Daniel, to the history of Israel, as it extends 
to the three grand divisions of Israel, as Asia, Europe and 
America. " The head of gold " is Babylon ; the arms of sil- 
ver is " the medo-Persian kingdom ;" the thighs of brass," 
the Macedonian or Grecian kingdom ; the legs of iron, the 
Eoman kingdom, or Pagan Eome. The ten horns that mixed 
"iron and clay," the ten kingdoms of West Eome that uni- 
ted State and church : "the mountain," the United States, 
"the stone cut out of the mountain without hands," the 
seven States that first organized the Southern Confederacy. 
These seven are no accidental seven. They are the only seven 
in the land that could represent the twice counted seven heads 
of the land. These were cut out "without hands " to fill the 
types for which they stood. Spain, the first head, is Flori- 
da ; France, is Louisiana ; these are moon and sun — Eng- 



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•land as " the earth,*' is Greorgia. As law and gospel count 
forty years from the two first for the second settlement of 
Israel,! so law and gospel both count from the tribe of Judah 
or Georgia, to represent " the earth" forty years to Phila- 
delphia, for the first settlement. South Carolina, separated 
from North Carolina, stands for the scattered head, the same 
as Jacob's family was scattered by the sale of Joseph. Ben- 
jamin is law, to represent Texas as "the united head." The 
divided head is the literal division between the two tribes of 
Judah, as Alabama and Mississippi. These were one, and 
were divided as Israel divides, and stand as the sixth or di- 
vided head. The four other States as Virginia, ISTorth Caro- 
lina, Tennessee and Arkansas, that came voluntarily to the 
seven, make the seventh head of choice. These are no acci- 
dental four, as will be seen before we are done. 

While this prophecy of Daniel applies in its extended 
sense to the whole history of Israel, it also applies to either 
wing of Israel — whether to literal Israel as the type given 
to Shem, or to gospel Israel given to Japheth in Rome, or 
to the Israel in the land in which Japheth is " enlarged over 
Shem." What now is the predicate of this prophecy in the 
Israel of law given to Shem? In the days of its unity, it 
was the " Head of gold." Its duality make the the " Arms 
of silver." The ten tribes are the " Brass," and also the ten 
that mixed "Iron and Clay." The two tribes, as Benjamin 
and Judah, arc the " Legs of iron," because they stand for 
the laws of God, that are to " stamp the whole earth," sym- 
bolized by Rome that claimed the world. " The mountain" 
was the land of Shem, or Israel, in the land of Shem. The 
stone was " the Christ " which was brought forth, or the 
laws of God, as written in his book. These are one and the 
same. The Son of God and the word of God are one. The 
reflective mind can apply the facts to the Israel of Japheth 
as Europe. Let them be applied to the Israel of North 
America. In the days of Israel's unity, it was -"the head 
of gold ; when it divided by the Missouri Compromise it 
was the "Arms of silver." The ten tribes of the North, as 
the ten original States arc both the " brass " kingdoms, and 
also the ten that "mix iron and clay." "The legs of iron" are 
the laws of God that retire to the South. " The mountain " 
is the whole land, and the " stone cut out it," are the seven 
States that first withdrew from the mountain to show to the 
world what are the laws of God as written in his word. 
These are simply Moses and Christ, or they are David. 

The cutting out of this stone began with Levi or South 
Carolina as the tribe of God's selection to bring Israel to the 
law of God. This Levi stood alone in this Japhetic Israel 



58 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

\ to bring Israel back to Moses, the same as in the Israel of 
") Shem. Let this pass for the present until the tribes are set- 
tled and that distinct thing for which each one stands is 
pointed out. 

Should any tribe complain of that part it has to act in 
the demonstration, let such tribe remember it is the God of 
Heaven that is using these tribes to show that he rules in 
the affairs of men, and that he rules by his own laws ; and 
to complain would be to act as Cain, and that God would 
Bay to such tribe " Sinlieth at the door." 

We come now to settle Israel, and tell what principle of 
law for w^hich each tribe stands according to the prophecies 
of Moses and Jacob who as " God the Holy Ghost " in bless- 
ing the tribes, said, " I will tell you what will befall you in 
the last days," or for what you will stand in the last days of 
the Japhetic Israel of both law and gospel ; as if he had 
said, these twelve sons are chosen as the representatives of 
God's laws for his creature man. These laws are his two 
witnesses, when they have finished their testimony, and the 
time comes for them to i:»ut off their "sackcloth and ashes," 
it will be because a nation has been brought forth as a land 
in w^iich the tribes will be given to show that symbolic 
sense in which you, as the heads of Israel, have been used. 
This will be required to overcome that " Nahash," begotten 
by Adam and Eve, as the natural inclination of man to dis- 
regard the laws of the Creator. As God has used the song 
of Adam, Cain, Abel, Seth, to represent his laws, so has he 
used the "Nahash," begotten by the disobedience of Adam 
and Eve, as his servant to drive Isaac to fulfill his will. The 
inclination to follow the beast, or nature, is God's whip of 
cords that puts his witnesses in sackcloth. As these wit- 
nesses have come through reproach, and God intends they 
shall be the king, they will stand to fulfill the prophecy of 
Pilate, when he said, "What I have written I have written." 
The king of the Jews. Ah ! the king of the world. 

Sincerely do we wish that the reader undertood the 
names of these tribes by the names that Jacob gave them. 

It would save an amount of labor in the double repeti- 
tion that is required to keep up the connected sense, to the 
mind which has not learned how to use the one for the 
other. 

The four first-born sons of Leah are : Eeuben is Yir- 
ginia, Simeon is North Carolina, Levi is South Carolina., 
Judah is Georgia. 

The two of Eachel's maid servant : Dan is Tennessee. 
Naphtali is Alabama. 

The two of Leah's maid servant: Gad is Arkansas. 
Asher is Mississippi. 



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The two of Leah's when she began to bear again r 
Issachar is Louisiana, Zebulon is Florida. 

The two of Eachel as Benjamin and Joseph. To Joseph 
the birthright was given, and he is both sun and moon, or 
civil and soul laws. Benjamin is Texas. 

Joseph is the civil government put up by the seven in 
Naphtali, and " the Methodist Episcopal church, South." 
The two half tribes of Joseph as Manassah and Ephraim, 
are half tribes because they divine the man between soul' 
and body, or civil law and soul law. These came with the 
church in its division yet in the civil division they came 
not. These are : Manassah as Kentucky, Ephraim is- 
Missouri. 

These are enough for God's demonstration. No human- 
ingenuity can add one to the number. Nor can one be made 
to take the place of another. Come here, all of yon, be- 
longing to earth's great ones ; come here, and let us see how 
God himself talks with his creature man. Don't be ashamed 
to come because it is an humble, obscure, unlearned, slave- 
holding /armer (that was) invites you. The author never 
went anywhere, and never saw anything ; to use a phrase 
of easy comprehension, he is nobody ; you never heard of 
him, and he hopes you never will. The writer is too simple 
to do anything further than to follow God's types as he gave- 
them, and God's history as he fulfills them. Let the theolo- 
gian lay aside his commentaries and come to the Book of 
God. God has told you no man " in heaven nor in earth 
could unloose the seals and open the book ;" He has told us 
at the sounding of the seventh trumpet, or at the rise of the 
eeventh nation, each with seven heads. When he shali 
begin to sound, the first thing announced is, " the mystery 
of God is finished ;" man could not finish it, but God has. 
God has told us that " fire should go out of the mouth of his 
two witnesses and burn up their enemies." Then come 
here and let us see how God talks. Let the lawyer lay aside 
his books, the doctor his physic, the merchant his merchan- 
dise, the man of fiction his "yellow covers," the mcchanic- 
his tools, the farmer his plow, and let all classes come here. 
No matter about the obscurity or humility of the pilot ; we- 
will take the shortest cut, and promise not to detain you 
long. We will touch lightl}'', and leave each one to find out 
wonders of which they have not dreamed. You must pause- 
at every period until you get the sense ; it is no trifling mat- 
ter in which we are engaged. The land is full of prophets, 
and a noble band they make, all striving to peer into the 
ways of God with man. We love them every one for their 
efforts in the cause of truth. It may be a " Balwin," or a 



60 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

•«' Baxter," or a " Waller," or a " Cox," or a " Cross," or a 
'' Seat," or an " Ariel," or his reviewers, and many others. 
Gross darkness still covers the land. Come here my broth- 
er-laborers in the cause of God. We find no fault with any 
of you. We are no reviewer ; yet in the language of Elihu 
to Job, " Suffer me a little and I will fetch my knowledge 
from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my maker. God's 
winnowing time has come ; he means to weigh the world in 
an even balance. Himself will make the distinction between 
his own written laws, and the laws of the "Nahash,"a 
natural man called " the beast." From the beginning he 
foreordained and decreed his own laws to govern his creature 
man in both soul and body. In reference to the future life, 
Christ died for all men, and he means to save those in Israel 
whom Eebecca (the church) can persuade to put on the 
right garment. Isaac's eyes are holden; Isaac, as the Christ, 
loved every "Hairy Esau." The light of nature is the law 
of God in heathen lands in contrast with the law of nature ; 
the light of nature teaches the heathen world, "Thoushalt 
not kill ;" " Thou shalt not steal." The law of nature con- 
tradicts these laws of God. The light of nature harmonizes 
in all things with the law of God. Those who have not the 
written law will be judged by the light of nature in con- 
trast with the law of nature. God is not a hard master; He 
does not reap where he does not sow ; it was an act of sov- 
eignty with God to select the seed of Abraham, with which 
to demonstrate his laws. The literal descent of the literal 
Israel given to Shem was not more literal and restricted 
to a certain line from Abraham through Isaac, and Jacob, 
and Joseph, and the two sons of Joseph, than has the line of 
gospel descent given to Japheth, been through the same 
line. Eoom was found for Israel in the two sons of Joseph, 
Manassah and Ephraim ; these are law as Manassah, and 
taw and gospel in Ephraim. These as literal tribes in this 
land [are Kentucky and Missouri. These as two cherubims 
make the flock of Joseph ; Joseph as the lawsof God "dwells 
between the cherubims;" these are the "tree of life that 
grows upon either bank of the river, whose leaves are for 
the healing of the nations." 

This literal land is a talking prophet ;« every tribe in 
ihm Israel is a prophet ; this is the family of Jacob. When 
this family left the house of Laban because " there remained 
n© further inheritance for the wives of Jacob in their fath- 
ers house ;" Laban pursued Jacob and laid claim to every- 
thing Jacob had. God appeared to Laban and told him to 
let Jacob alone. (We give the sense.) They formed a 
league and drew a line, and took an oath that neither 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. GT 

should cress that line for harm to the other. Jacob erected 
a pillow and called it Galeed or Gilead, in token of the cove- 
nant made ; Mt. Ephraim Avas in the land of G-ilead. In this 
Israel Ephraim is Missouri, and that line is called the Mis- 
souri Comj^romise line. Did God approve of this line ? In 
the same sense in which he has approved of the whole his- 
tory of Israel, he did. This is what Ave call a demonstrative 
sense. In order to select the tribes to give the meaning to 
his laws, it was a2:>proved ; as restricting the laws in their 
action to any boundary less than the world when 
the sense is finished, it has no authority in the word 
of God. " The stone out of the mountain must fill the 
world." If national Judah could have maintained that 
boundary made by the Missouri Compromise, he would have 
restricted the laws of God with which Abra-Ham is to pos- 
sess the world within himself The laws of God hold no. 
compromise with the laws of men ; the one is indulged on. 
account of human weakness, and God uses it as an instru- 
ment to create strife to drive Israel to fulfill his word. God 
is opposed to a kingly government, yet he has granted it ; 
God is opposed to a plurality of wives ; yet he has granted 
it ; God is oj^posed to Ham running at large as a beast, yet 
made in the image of God, yet he has granted it ; God is 
opposed to Ham's ruling Japheth, and yet he grants it. 
None of those permits for demonstrative purposes will be 
allowed when the "mystery is finished," the times num- 
bered, and the witnesses stand upon their feet. Things are- 
permitted under "solemn protest." This is true in the 
Japhetic Israel, the same as that of Shem. 

In the settlement of this Japhetic Israel of law, Eeuben^ 
or Virginia, was the first-born tribe, and Judah, or Georgia, 
was the last. In the settlement of the Israel of both law 
and gospel, the half tribe of Joseph, as Manassah, or Ken- 
tucky, was the first-born, and the tribe of Benjamin, as the 
tribe at which Eachel died is the last. This tribe is Texas. 
The mess of Benjamin was five times as large as any other 
mess. The literal fact will in every respect be found to 
agree with the prophetic fact. This tribe of Benjamin is 
five times as large as any other tribe. 

The literal Joseph, like Jacob, or Abraham, standing 
for the laws of God, set each one's mess to itself, thereby 
showing each tribe would stand to itself To each tribe Jo- 
seph gave one change of raiment to set forth the double typo 
of laws for which they stood. To the tribe of Benjamin he 
gave "five changes of raiment." This was done to show 
the five difi'erent things for which Benjamin stood. These 
five tilings for which Benjamin stands in the history of ' 



^2 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Israel, are the following : First — he is the law of Mosos 
written in ten commandments ; secondly — he is the Israel 
of law given to Shem, to whom the law was given ; thirdly-;— 
he is the law of the nation given to the Japhetic Israel, in 
the land of Japheth's enlargement, when the union was first 
formed ; fourthly — he is the nation that first formed the law 
upon the doctrine of " local charters " or " States rights ; " 
fifthly — as a tribe in Israel, he is "the Lone Star, Texas." As 
the literal Israel from Shem moves in the world with the law 
of Moses, for which they stand as the body, or civil law of 
of the body, so does the tribe of Benjamin in this Japhetic 
Israel move with the law for which he stands. 

It was Eeuben, the first-born son of Jacob, that stood 
pledged to bring Benjamin. This Reuben mu&t do in the 
five different characters for which Benjamin stands. Eeuben 
said, " If I bring not Benjamin, slay my two sons." Reuben 
is Virginia. The two sons of this Reuben are " States 
Rights and Freedom in Religion." It was the doubting 
Thomas, standing as the dividing apostle to represent the 
second half, who is in this land represented by the doubting 
Thomas Jeiferson as the second Southern judge in this 
Israel, that bought the second half of this Israel in the 
Louisiana purchase, in which the tribe of Benjamin is in- 
cluded. This was done by this son of Reuben in 1803-4, as 
the years of purchase and exchange of treaties. This act 
was approved because Rachel then held the husband, as the 
civil government in the stead of Leah. As the literal Israel, 
as Benjamin, was cast out by the joint action of Reuben and 
Simeon, upon the division of Israel between law and gospel, 
so did Reuben and Simeon in this land cast out the tribe of 
Benjamin, or Texas, and also the law of Benjamin upon 
a division of this Japhetic Israel by the Missouri Compro- 
mise of 1821. Reuben as Virginia, and Simeon as Ply- 
mouth, in the persons of J. Monroe and J. Q. Adams, gave 
Benjamin, or Texas, in exchange for Zebulon, or Florida, in 
the year 1821, and gave the husband to Leah by the act, 
and cast out both the law of Benjamin that united Israel, 
and the tribe of Benjamin that moves with the law. This 
act was done to separate ten tribes from the two. It was 
intentional on the part of God in order to show what wore 
the civil law, and soul law, for which the two tribes stood. 
The representatives of these laws, as collective bodies, had 
to be gathered alone in national Judah. That Reuben, that 
first brought Benjamin to represent the whole of this Israel 
of law, in the person of Thomas Jefi'erson, and which cast 
Benjamin out in the person of James Monroe, still stood 
pledged to bring Benjamin back. It was only for a time 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 63 

Benjamin was to bo cast out. The same is true in roferenco 
to the law of Moses, as Benjamin, or the Jews as Benjamin, 
or the nation of Benjamin, in the land of Japheth's enlarge- 
ment. If Eeuben and Simeon, in this land, in casting out 
Benjamin, acted the kingly parts of the first and second 
Israel's, as in Judah and Eome. In bringing Benjamin 
back, Eeuben and Levi acted the parts for which they stood 
in this restored Japhetic Israel ; if force cast out Benjamin, 
the principle of choice brought him back. The representa- 
tive heads to do this were, John Tyler, of Eeuben, and John 
Calhoun of Levi. As the literal Eeuben put Joseph, who 
stands for Clod's dual laws, in the pit, intending to take him 
away, so Eeuben in this land put Benjamin in the pit, 
which Benjamin stands for the one-half, or civil law of 
Joseph in the pit, with the intention of taking him away. It 
was only " for the present," as said James Monroe, of Eeuben, 
that the act was done. " For the present we ought to be 
content wnth the Floridas." Eeuben could not have brought 
Benjamin back upon the principles of God's laws to govern 
Israel by choice, and not force; had not God removed Gen. 
Harrison, in order to place a son of Eeuben at the head of 
the nation, this son of Eeuben was John Tyler, who signed 
the bill to bring back Benjamin in the year 1845, three days 
before his term of office expired. 

In the Israel of Shem, nine tribes and a half were loca- 
ted on the West of the Jordan, and two tribes and a half on 
the East. In the Israel of Japheth, nine tribes and a half 
are on the East of the Jordan, and two tribes and a half 
arc on the West. 

The two tribes and a half in Shem were Eeuben the first 
born of Jacob, and Manassah the first-born of Joseph, and 
Gad the dividing tribe. In this Japhetic Israel, the first is 
last, and the last is first. The place of Eeuben, the first-born 
of Jacob, is filled by Benjamin, the last born. The place of 
Manassah, the first-born of Joseph, is taken by Ephriam his 
younger brother, w^hile Gad, the dividing tribe, holds his 
Bame position. Jacob crossed his hands willingly "in bless- 
sing the children of Joseph, to show the nature of this 
change in the anti-type given to Japheth. There are no mis- 
takes in God's Book. All others that do not tend to explain 
this one, are of men, and they are of no use. Art, science, 
history, discovery, are God's exponents. If six tribes bless 
and six tribes curse, the meaning is, the one half of Israel is 
God's driving force, and the other half is the pulling force. 
The two tribes are symbolically the same as the ten. The 
two " golden heifers " of Jeroboam were the Gods of men, 
and stood as the substitutes of the two tribes, " Benjamin 



64 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

and Jiidah," as the representatives of the laws of God. The 
same triitb applies to gospel Israel given to Judah in the 
land of Japheth in Europe. The ten kingdoms of West 
Rome, called "ten horns," stood to represent God's dual 
laws that were written in his Book, while these were hid in 
the convents of the Romish monks. The same fact applies 
to this restored Japhetic Israel. The ten old States in the 
North stand ,for the ten horns, or ten toes, that take the- 
place of God's laws, or God's two witnesses, in this land. 
These claim to legislate for both dej^artments of God's king- 
dom, and thus they do what God only claims the right to do. 
These ten are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 
Connecticut, Yermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva- 
nia, Delaware, Maryland. These are the representatives of" 
the west wing of Jeroboam, to represent ten tribes that sub- 
stituted golden gods for the laws of God. These would not 
fill the former types, if they did not think they were doing 
right in their action. Truth is always in the rear with man. 
Man does not know the meaning God attaches to his own 
word, till in the pursuit of the laws of nature God points it 
out. The two kings, upon which the literal Israel divided 
as Rehoboam and Jeroboam were both born at Jerusalem. 
These were only a different form of presenting Saul and 
David. Manassah is the tribe to represent law as the son of 
Joseph, the same as Benjamin does Jacob. This tribe in 
this land is Kentucky"; in this tribe was born Abraham 
Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. The law for which Abraham 
stood was changed at the seventh head, and forcible Saul 
came as the first king. The seventh President from the^ 
North in this land was James Buchanan. As James Polk 
closed the seven from the South, James Buchanan closed the 
seven from the North. 

God commanded Saul in the battle with the Amelekites- 
to take the lives of everything and take none of the spoils. 
God's prophet came to Saul and told him he had disobeyed 
God, that he heard the lowing of cattle and the bleating of 
sheep. Saul told the prophet that he had found out a bet- 
ter way of serving God than by following his directions. 
That in place of taking the lives of the sheej:) and cattle he 
intended them for sacrifice to the Lord. The prophet might 
have replied in substance to Saul: Of your sincerity in this 
matter there can be no doubt, but it has cost you your king- 
dom ; God did not give j^ou a law to mend, but a law to 
keep. The same facts apply to Uzzah who caught the ark 
when the oxen stumbled. God had said, none but the 
Levites should touch the ark. This was the law and stood 
paramount to any other consideration. If the Levites 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

could not keep the ark from falling, then let it fall. The 
modern world seem to think it has a different God from the 
one who wrote his bcok. It is the world's mistake. If Saul 
thinks to mend God's law that says, "Ham, the father of 
Canaan, shall serve Japheth," and " Thou shalt not covet 
thy neighbors servant,"' Saul will find out his mistake after 
he has tried it. In worshipping Ham, the natural man, and 
not the law set in Abra-Ham, he may build his gallows fifty 
cubits high. This Ham-an will get upon his own gallows, 
and learn that God will have no amendments before it is 
done. 

Turning now to the tribes of this Japhetic Israel. IIow 
can it be known of what God approves, and of what he disap- 
proves ? This settlement is made by " God the Holy Ghost," 
combining both the "Father and the Son," and moves with 
the literal acts of the literal Jacob. 

The two wives of Jacob, as Eachel and Leah, are given 
to show of what God approves, and what not. All the chil- 
<lren of Eachel are approved because the law ruling at the 
time of the birth of such tribe stands as the law of God. 
Those of Leah are not approved, because the church law for 
which she stands mixes human laws with the laws of God. 
The husband to Eachel is the law of Moses ; the husband to 
Leah is the civil government reigning at the time the tribe 
is born. Once only is Jacob as " God the Holy Ghost," the 
husband of Leah, at the birth of her six children. This is 
at the birth of the tribe of Icsachar, the first tribe begotten 
with a bargain and sale, and he is given to represent the 
merchandise of Ethiopia and is made a servant of tribute. 
Leah changes the husband with every change of the civil 
government ; Eachel's husband is unchangeable, and she 
dies when the husband is entirely taken from her. The 
seven years service of Jacob for Eachel is the seven years 
of war had in this Israel as the Israel of law. Jacob served 
for Eachel as the laws of God, but when the morning came, 
or the light broke, he found he had Leah. It is a prophecy 
in action, and he had both Leah and Eachel. 

The church has been none the less the church of God 
because it has been struggling with the heathen laws of man, 
represented by Leah. Eachel is given to show what it will 
be when it comes to the laws of God, and ceases to cover 
itself with " fig-leaves." Leah adapts herself to every form 
of civil law under Avhich the church has moved. Eachel has 
no king but the laws of God ; Leah has kings, popes, and 
all of nature's "high nobility," for her husband. Eachel is 
unity upon God's laws for husband and bride ; Leah is unity 
upon the laws of man for husband and bride. Leah divides 



66 ■ THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Israel; Bachcl knows no division — the world is her parish; 
Leah is yielding to the caprices of human laws ; Eachel will 
die before she will yield one hair's breadth ; Leah is slave- 
holding at one time, and anti-slavery at another. Eachel 
says all the time, " Ham is a servant of tribute." The chil- 
dren of Leah will pass away after the demonstration is ended; 
the children of Eachel are perpetual and will live through 
the thousand years of rest to Israel. If in the settlement of 
this Israel of law with twelve tribes, in the land of Japheth'a 
enlargement ; Leah, as the mother, representing the four 
sons common to both settlements, she is Euth, or Elizabeth, 
or the Church of England. Eachel stands for the one that 
was put up at the literal Philadelphia, after the forty years 
journeying in the wilderness from the tribe of Judah. This 
one is headed by George III, or John Wesley. If Leah 
stands for the seven scattered churches in the land, as the 
seven wives of David, Eachel is the Bath-sheba among the 
seven. If these seven, as the seven daughters of Eeuei, are 
represented by Leah, Eachel is the Zepj^orah among the 
seven, with not the literal Moses, but with the lawof xvloses, 
for the husband. The contest in this Israel is narrowed 
down to the two wings of that single church put up at 
Philadelph ia, at the head of whom stood John the 'fore- 
runner," as John Wesley. This was the one of whom it 
was said, " I will open a door to thee that no man will shut, 
and I will keep thee, and I will make the world come and 
worship at thy feet, and they shall know that I have loved 
thee." The death of all the other six is told. Even the 
one at Smyrna, as the Baptist church, designated by the two 
literal wives that followed David into the South land in the 
rebellion of Saul and Absalam against David, the death of 
this one, though highly commended, is told. The two 
churches that divided into this land, before this war, were 
the one at Smyrna, or Baptist church, and the one at Phila- 
delphia, or Methodist church. Of the church at Smyrna, or 
the Baptist church, which stands to represent the congrega- 
tional churches, it is said, '• Thou art poor, yet making 
many rich ; thou shalt not suffer persecution ten days, (or 
ten centuries) be thou faithful unto death and I will give 
thee a crown of life." AVhile she teaches for the soul, "Ye 
must be born again." The church of God has a head. To 
Paul w^as committed the care of all the churches. 

Again, we repeat, the contest is narrowed down to the 
two wings of the church of John Wesley, as first organized 
in this land at Philadelphia. Let us track God's types and 
see how the Holy Ghost moves to fulfill them in this demon- 
strative Israel. We say demonstrative Israel, because the 



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whole, whether in church or State, is coming together again, 
and "Ephraim as the ]^orth, and Judah as the South, are 
going to ai^point them one head," and that head will be 
God's written laws, and peace shall dwell between them. 
This will be after these have learned there can be no peace 
upon human laws or man's wisdom. History is ours. 
Things future belong to Grod, and we will try to avoid spec- 
ulations as much as possible. 

The verbs love, hate, joined, praise, judged, prevailed, 
dwell, <tc., used by the mother at the birth of each child 
are given to show the relation which the child, or tribe, 
holds to the civil law, as the husband with the mother, rep- 
resenting the soul, or church of the soul. At the birth of 
the four first tribes, Leah is the mother and stands as the 
church of England, and the husband is the civil govern- 
ment of England, as these tribes were English colonies. 
They are also given to show how the divisions and laws gov- 
erning Israel have been regarded by God in its past history, 
of which we cannot speak in this summary of Israel's history. 
Present facts are all aimed at. 

At the birth of Reuben, (Virginia) Leah said, "Now 
will my husband love me." "Love me," stands for the child 
born. Did England, as the husband, love Yu-ginia. The 
love for the parties was muhial, as is affirmed by all history. 
Turn to the next tribe as Simeon, or North Carolina. At 
the birth of this tribe, Leah said, " The Lord saw I was 
hated." What are the facts of history ? This tribe was hated 
by England and she hated England as much as Virginia 
loved and was loved. If the one, as Virginia, offered an 
asylum to the deposed king, the other could hardly be made 
to submit to any governor the king would appoilit. These 
tribes in this demonstrative Israel, hold that relation as the 
first and second that was held by the first Israel given to 
Shem, and the second given to Japheth. Let the question 
be understood. Seven years are in this land appointed for 
Jacob to get Rachel, that is to separate Rachel from Leah. 
As much is to be done in this seven years as during the whole 
seven times in the past history of Israel. The seven na- 
tions, each with seven heads, are seven times, and stand for 
the seven times that passed over Nebuchadnezzar in which 
he "ate grass like an ox," or followed the law of the beast, 
or law of nature. These seven times are seven years, at the 
close of which seven years, the entire history of the seven 
years is repeated. There is no incident in all of Israel's 
former history, that will not find its correspondent in this 
summary. Whether this be "the plagues of Egypt, or the 
ten persecutions, or the putting of the feet of Joseph in 



68 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

fetters; "they put his feet in fetters," or Daniel in the den* 
of lions, the pursuit of Pharaoh, the captivity of Babylon, 
the delivery from Babylon, the re-building the temple, the- 
coming of Christ, the stone placed upon him, the Eoman 
guard to keep him from rising, the twelve patriarchs, or the 
twelve apostles. No matter what it may be, it will find its • 
corresponding part, audits corresponding character, in this 
seven years war that is to show to the world both the hus- 
band and the bride. 

These seven years are the "jubilee," to the seven times ■ 
seven that have gone before. They stand as the seventh day ' 
to Joshua when he compassed Jerico. As much was done 
on the seventh day as had been done on all the other days;: 
that is, they moved with rapid succession over the whole 
history of that which Tiad gone before. All the heads, and 
law-givers, and kings, that Israel has ever had are herewith, 
the proper representatives that have come all the way down 
from Adam and Eve. It is the keeping these up in their sym- 
bolic character, that teaches what is civil law and church, 
law. Not only what the laws are, but who compose those • 
collective bodies to hold the laws. 

At the birth of the third son, Leah said, " Now will my 
husband be joined to me." This tribe of Levi is South Caro- 
lina. It is a foct of history that in the year 1706, the civil. 
law of England did establish the church of England in South . 
Carolina. The establishing of the church in Eeuben, or Vir- 
ginia, was done by Sir Walter Ealeigh, at its discovery, in 
the name of the Queen of England. This was not the method 
in which the husband was joined to the church in South 
Carolina. Levi was the tribe chosen to represent the cere- 
monial law of Moses, for which Leah stood in the Israel of 
Shem,when the Levites had no inheritance; Levi stood for 
Leah with the Pope of Eome, when Simeon and Levi "dug 
down a wall" and united State and church; Levi stood for ■ 
Episcopal Euth in England, and was Leah joined to her hus-- 
band ; Levi stood for the seven scattered churches in this 
land of Israel, when, as the Israel of law, these tribes had a 
common civil head, and Levi was "scattered in Israel," ac- 
cording to the declaration of Jacob, as " God the Holy 
Ghost." This Levi had no inheritance, as in the Israel of 
Shem. This Levi, standing for all the scattered churches, 
has again become united with Simeon, as in Eome, and Levi 
has an inheritance and the "birthright" is given to Joseph, 
who has no inheritance but a " double portion." None now 
belonging to Levi can pray only as Simeon dictates ; Simeon 
standing as the " God of forces," or numbers, will not allow- 
Levi to pray to a God that says, "Servants be obedient to^ 



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your masters ;" " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors ox, 
nor servant." This Simeon knows no such God as this, and 
hence Levi, as Leah, is ''joined to the husband." When 
this husband, as the civil, comes to the husband of Eachel, 
as the law of Moses, it is no longer Leah, but Eachel. We 
are not left to conjecture in reference to who stands as the 
civil judges of this Israel to represent both the husband and 
the bride. 

At the birth of Judah, Leah said, "Now will I praise 
the Lord," "and Leah left bearing." Judah in this Israel 
stands as the fourth son of the second settlement of Israel, 

:and is also the last of the first settlement. This tribe is 
Georgia. The whole settlement of this Japhetic Israel of 
law was Leah's, both in its civil dej^artment, with twelve 
patriarchs, and its church department, as seven churches. 
As Eeuben the first and Judah the last were Leah's, with 
Levi standing for all the churches, so the whole included, 

l)etween the first and last, were Leah's. The two sons of 
Eachel, as Joseph and Benjamin, stand for the heads of 

'laws, and they do not come forth till after the forty years 
for Israel to "Journey in the Wilderness." As the tribe of 
Judah gave the world a Christ upon whom the laws of God 
met, in the Israel of Shem, so in the Israel of Japheth, these 
laws must take their rise from the tribe of Judah, each forty 

jyears to the place of union at Philadelphia. The birthright 
is given to Joee])h, but Judah is the law-giver ; that is, those 
dual laws of God, for which Joseph stands as the son of 
Hachel, and of which he is the type, must bring their heads 
for both civil and church, out of Judah. 

The literal is given at every point, as the exponent of the 
symbolic. Four tribes, or four mothers, claimed all the ter- 
ritory belonging to the first Israel, not included in the 
domains of the other tribes. Eeuben, as the first, claimed 
all the northwest ; Simeon, the second, as Plymouth of the 
North, claimed Maine ; Simeon, of the South, as the second 
of the South, claimed Tennessee; Judah claimed all west of 
him to the Jordan or Mississippi river, as Alabama and Mis- 
sissippi. There is no mistake, no merely happening in 
this arrangement. Nothing is by accident. 

The four tribes as the heads of Israel are the rejDresen- 

•tatives of four law-givers, in respect to civil law, and these 
four stand to represent the three forms of the church since 
the origin of the gospel church at the " breaking of the 
day," or at the rise of the United States, as the Israel of 
law. These law-givers are civil judges in Israel. They are 
the first, the seventh, the last, and tbe law-giver from " be- 
iiween the feet of Judah." The first as George Washing- 



70 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

ton. Or Joshua, was of Eeuben, and stands to represent 
Euth, or Elizabeth, or the daughter that followed the moth- 
er-in-law. The seventh was born in Levi or South Carolina, 
and is Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh judge in this 
Japhetic Israel. He was born of Levi, the tribe that gave 
the world a Moses, and his protest airainst the division of 
Israel is the protest of Moses, which will be removed after 
the demonstration is finished. If the judges of this Japhetic 
Israel be taken in their consecutive order, Andrew Jackson 
is the seventh ; these will be, Washington, J. Adams, Jeffer- 
son, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, A. Jackson. It was at 
the seventh head of the Israel of Shem as judges, that God 
" solemnly protested " against any other king to Israel than 
his own written laws, as given by Levi, because Moses came 
of Levi. Andrew Jackson, the seventh in this land, pro- 
tested against any other king than the written laws. The op- 
posite judge, as the seventh, in the literal Israel to Andrew 
Jackson, in this land, was Abimilech. 

The protest of God was against a forcible law, or king, 
as he stated what heavy burdens would be ^^l^ced upon 
Israel by the departure from the written law. The protest 
of Andrew Jackson was to the same purport. That force 
that was represented by Abimilech, the seventh judge, has, 
at the close of the seven Northern judges, in this land, or at 
James Buchanan, come to the throne of Israel. Like the- 
Abimilech of the Israel of Shem, he has done this by slay- 
ing seventy of his brethren, or excluding about that num- 
ber from the seat of law, and like Abimilech, he has cap- 
tured both Sarah, the law of gospel, which is the second- 
time the law of gospel has been captured, and he has cap- 
tured Eebecca the church of gos2:iel. That he has done this . 
ignorantly is all the truth, according to the types set in^ 
Abraham and Isaac, for this Abimilech did not know that 
these which he has captured were God's chosen, as the bride - 
to the husband. This is God's method to show that he is-; 
the only king. While this seventh judge in this land, as^ 
Andrew Jackson, born of Levi, stands like Washington, the- 
first born of Eeuben, both to represent the civil law, neither 
have the bride to the husband. This Andrew Jackson takes 
the bride that Simeon, as Plymouth, the seventh son, held, 
standing for Congregational Orpah, or the scattered churches. 

The bride is not with the diocesian Episcopal Euth that 
holds to succession, as th^ mother-in-law, ISTaamah Nor is- 
it with the scattered Orpah that holds to Presbyterian ordi- 
nation. As John Wesley come from between these out of 
England as "the earth that helped the woman," so is the- 
literal fact in the last an.d seventh, civil, head of this demonr- 



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fitrative Israel in the person of James Polk, who was born 
in Simeon, or North Carolina, between Eeuben and Levi, 
and who was a Wesleyan Methodist. God's mean is between 
man's extremes. As in the settlement of this Japhetic 
Israel, the seventh or Puritan head of England, as Crom- 
well, settled the extreme Korth as Plymouth, and as the 
seventh head of Eome, as ISTapoleon Bonaparte, settled the 
extreme South, or Orleans territory, which two extremes 
stood to rejDresent man in his double nature — the one as 
wholly a beast or literal being, and that he had no future 
existence, the other giving a spiritual apj^lication to every 
truth in Cod's book, and construing all things into the 
''Doing to others as ye would they should do to you," w^ith- 
out the least regard to the civil arrangement of Cod's laws, 
so is the church of Cod between the two extremes of Euth 
and Orpah. While there is no virtue in the imposition of 
the hands of the Bishop as Euth w^ould teach, yet it is not 
to be set aside as Orpah w^ould teach. It is Cod's arrange- 
ment to give unity, vitality, and aggressive power to his 
church. 

Cod used names, and tribes, and measures of times, and 
measures of numbers, and dates, and coincidents, in the 
Israel of Shem, to "seal the book," with its double law^s for 
his double creature man. So in the Israel in the land of 
Jaj)heth's enlargement over Shem, he uses the same things 
to "unseal the book." No man, nor all men, could ever 
have done it. Yet Cod, as an act of sovereignty, has been 
pleased to make "National Judah " worthy to " unloose the 
seals and 02:>en the book." No mortal, dead or living, is en- 
titled to any credit for doing it. The ten kingdoms of West 
Eome are Ephraim in the land of Japheth. The United 
States stood for the tw^o tribes, Benjamin and Judah. If 
Israel be transferred to this land, then the North is Ephriam, 
and the South is both Benjamin and Judah. The tribe of 
Judah in National Judah is Georgia. The law-giver from 
" between his feet " is Jefferson Davis, as the literal man to 
represent the head of civil law. His vice-head, as A. H. 
Stephens, is out of the tribe of Judah. Do these hold the 
same law that was first put up as a union of choice and as 
" States Eic:hts?" Do these as heads of law hold the same 
law that ruled at the coming of the first son of Joseph or 
Manassah, or Kentucky, at which time Jerusalem began to 
be rebuilt? What says Cod's representative names ? Da- 
vid as the civil law was the law of this restored Israel at its 
rise. This David came at the end of fourteen generations 
or heads of law, from Abraham, as gospel to David. This 
was the first anointing of David as the civil ruler. The 



72 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

great leaders to set up the law were Thomas Jefferson and 
Alexander Hambleton. The nation over which the law 
ruled made " Ham a servant of tribute." This law taught 
that the fugitive escaping from one tribe to another, should 
be rendered back. As this law returned to the South, it 
was to set the fourteen generations from David to the cap- 
tivity, and also to annoint Oavid the second time by Na- 
tional Judah. The heads of law at the end of " fourteen 
generations " are the same as at first, yet thc}^ are out of the 
tribe of Judah. These are Jefferson Davis and Alexander 
H. Stephens. This is done, not to change the husband or 
civil law, but in order to show who the bride to the husband 
is. While the heads of law to the civil stand for the seventh 
nation, each with seven heads, which is the sixth merged 
inio the seventh, the church's head is also the seventh out 
of the tribe of Judah in National Judah. 

The blessings of Jacob and Moses upon the tribe of 
Judah refer to him in both a national and a tribe sense, and 
as such he will be left till we consider all the tribes. The 
tribes are nnity in the laws coming from Judah, as they are 
unity in the laws meeting in Joseph. Let us dispose of the 
other three heads as law-givers in Israel in the shortest way 
in connection with the prophecies of Jacob and Moses, in tel- 
ling them for what they would stand in Israel. More ought 
in justice to be said of either one of these than shall be said 
of the three. Jacob said of Eeuben, "thou art my first-born, 
my might and the beginning of my strength — the excellen- 
cy of dignity and power "[Instable as water, Eeuben, thou 
shalt not excel, because thou wentest up to the thy father's 
bed, then defidest thou it: he went went up to my couch." 

Eeuben, the first-born, is the tribe chosen in this land 
to act that double part which the literal Israel of Shem acted 
in reference to the laws of God and the laws of nature. 
Eeuben is the synopsis to Israel in this land. Eeuben is 
Yirginia — he has strength, might, power, dignity, yet he is 
wanting in stability. If Eeuben taught '• States Eights," he 
bound the nation to consolidation. If Eeuben said " Free- 
dom in religion," he had an established church. If Eeuben 
Avas a slaveholder, he laid a prohibition upon his northwest- 
ern territory by the ordinance of 1787, that slavery should 
not go there, and he broke \\j) the slave trade in 1808. If 
Eeuben said, governments were by consent of the governed, 
he brought Zebulon, or Florida, without consulting the will 
of its inhabitants. If Eeuben said all men were " Born free 
and equal," he did not act upon the declaration in holding 
Ham in bondage. Eeuben is the only tribe in Israel that 
has been so unstable. Eeuben is the tribe to act the double 



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part on all questions concerning this Japhetic Israel. The 
other tribes are given to act out and show both the negative 
and "positive parts in the double action of Keuben. This 
Eeuben, though '-unstable as water," is still '-the excellen- 
cy of power and dignity." He is also the strength of might. 
Suffice it to say, that the greatest statesmen in the nation, 
and the greatest jurists, and the greatest generals, came of 
Eeuben. 

Moses said '• Let Eeuben live and not die, and let not 
his men be few." Eeuben is called "the Mother of States," 
and he has given more tone and standing to the nation than 
any other tribe, perhaps more than all the others combined. 
Of Eeuben came Washington, "the Father of his Country." 
Of him came Jefferson, the second father, as the purchaser 
of the second half of the nation, and who is called the father 
of the doctrine of " States Eights," as the son of Eeuben. Of 
Eeuben came Madison, "the father of the Constitution." Of 
Eeuben came Monroe, that brought the tribe of Zebulon. Of 
Eeuben came Tyler, that brought Benjamin. Eeuben can- 
not die while these names shall live. Eeuben is " the ex- 
cellency of dignity." He does not move with the haste of 
his more fiery brethren. If his son, as " States Eights," yet 
within the union, is imperilled by fiery and impetuous Levi 
of the South, it is the dignity of Eeuben that restores the 
brother and calms the storm. If his son, as " Freedom in 
Eeligion," is imperiled by the stoj'm that swept the North 
from side to side, in their resolves against the mother, Naa- 
mah, as Catholic Eome, again it was a son of Eeuben that 
grappled with the storm and broke its force. When Israel 
had achieved the victory over her enemies and Deborah, the 
nurse of Eebecca, the gospel church sang of the victory, she 
said, "for the divisions of Eeuben there were great search- 
ings of heart," Israel's difficulties have been owing to the 
double dealing of Eeuben. Let these suggested thoughts 
suffice for Eeuben. 

When Jacob came to bless Simeon and Levi, he united 
them. "Simeon and Levi are brethren." These have been 
brethren as church and State in Eome ; they are again 
brethren in this land, as church and State united under 
Simeon, as the second son, or Plymouth colony, and Levi 
^standing for all the scattered churches. In this land of 
Israel, in which the literal is given as the exponent of the 
sense, Simeon and Levi, as brethren, are simply Carolina. 
Jacob said of these brothers, "instruments of cruelty are in 
their habitation. O, my soul, come not thou into their 
secret ; unto their assembly mine honor be not thou united ! 
for in their anger they slew a man; in their self-will they 



74 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

digged down a wall." Cursed be their anger, for it was 
fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them . 
in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." 

As a piece of composition, this blessing is equal to any 
part of Job. It belongs to that class of writings found in 
nothing out of God's book. No conception of the human 
mind can add one word, nor can one be taken away. The 
cruelty of these brethren when united as church and State, 
their secret council, their want of honor, their fierce anger, 
their cruel wrath, and their digging down a wall that God 
had set up between them, is told in an unearthly strain in 
the fewest words by Clod's prophet. All the billingsgate of 
man cannot make one single addition to that that is here 
announced. The subject is exhausted. The long line of 
God's martyred witnesses rise up in review before the mind, . 
reflecting upon the action of these brothers — the horrors 
of the inquisition, the tortured death by faggot and sword, 
the secret plotting on the night of the good Saint Bartholo- 
mew, the exhuming of the bones of God's martyred dead, 
and casting them upon the dung-hill, as unfit for the rights 
of sepulchre. How accurately all this was told by Jacob, 
thousands of years before it ail came to pass. These breth- 
ren, in this land of Israel, are again united, and have been 
robbing and plundering the sacred mementoes to cover the 
dead. Their fierce ano;er and cruel wrath still attends 
them. '• How^ long, O, Lord, wilt thou give the heritage of 
Jacob for a reproach?" " They shall be divided in Jacob and 
scattered in Israel." It is still a question of debate, w^hether ■ 
Simeon, of the North, as Plymouth, or Simeon, of the 
South, as North Carolina, stood in the front to scatter - 
Simeon, in the first work of this Japhetic Israel, to slay an 
"old man," as the "divine right of kings;" Levi, of the- 
South, stands in the front to scatter both Simeon and Levi in 
the second w^ork of this Israel to slay a " young man " as the 
divine right of numbers to rule without law. These tribes 
in this Israel stand in the front to oppose those laws of ' 
which they stood the types in Israel's past history. When 
Idoses blesses the tribes he leaves out Simeon. As much is ■ 
learned by the omission to do a thing as by the doing of it.. 
That force for which Simeon stood, having been used to ' 
bring Israel to the law of Benjamin, there is no longer any 
use for Simeon. The Lord's Christ is Benjamin and Joseph; 
when these come, Simeon takes his dej^arture. Joseph said, 
" Bring me Benjamin, and I will release Simeon." 

Let us see what Moses said of Levi. His blessing upon 
Levi is in keeping with that of Jacob upon both Simeon and 
Levi. Moses said of Levi, which 9S a tribe, in this land, is 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 75 ' 

Soutli Carolina, v' Let thy Thiimmini and thy Urim be 
with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and 
with whom thou didst strive at the waters Meribah ; who 
said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; 
neither did he acknowledged his brethren, nor know his 
own children, for they have observed thy word and kept 
thy covenant. They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and 
Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee an 
whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. Bless, Lord, his sub- 
stance and accept the work of his hands — smite through the 
the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that 
bate him, that they rise not again." 

If that part remaining to be fulfilled concerning this 
tribe of Levi, shall be as accurately fulfilled as all the first 
part, then will the prophecy stand as one of the most ex- 
act and sublime ones in all God's book. If Levi gave the 
world a law-giver, in the person of Moses, in the Israel of 
Shem, it is the work of the Levi, in the land of Japheth, to 
bring the nation to the law thus given. Levi standing for 
the ceremonial law of the church, led Israel a'^tray from 
the law of Moses, when in the person of Jeroboam, he 
appointed ignoble ones to the priesthood. Levi, as the church, 
united with Simeon in Rome, and in the persons of the 
Pope's, did the same thing. As Eve led Adam away from the 
law of God, so has it been with Levi. While Levi was sepa- 
rated from Simeon, in this land of Israel, both Simeon and 
Levi were " scattered " upon the doctrine of "States rights " 
and " freedom in religion." The wall that had been dug- 
down by these brothers in Rome, was set up, and as the lit- 
eral fact in this land is up with the symbolic, a dividing line 
was drawn between Simeon and Levi, as North and South 
Carolina. The action of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, and 
the whole nation, drove out this law that "scattered Simeon 
and Levi in the year 1821, by the Missouri Compromise 
line, and drove out the law of Moses for which the tribe of 
Benjamin stood, and drove out the tribe of Benjamin at the- 
same time. As in the literal Israel, the absence of Moses 
forty days, was enough for Israel to depart from the teach- 
ing of Moses, and worship the golden calf of Aaron; so in the 
Japhetic Israel, the departure of the law of Moses for forty 
years made the whole nation to bow to the golden calf. 
As the literal Moses ground that calf to i:>owder and sprinkled 
it upon the waters and told Israel to drink it," so the law 
of Moses in this land will grind that calf to powder, and 
the nation will drink it. Moses commanded the tribes to 
gird on their swords and go through Israel and smite all 
who had worshipped Aaron's calf. One tribe only followed 



76 ' THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

the law of Moses, that tribe was Levi. The same truth ap- 
plies to the tribe of Levi in this Japhetic Israel As in the 
Israel of Shem, this tribe drew the sword against brother 
and son, and all his kindred, and knew nothing but the law 
of Grod, so it is with him in this demonstrative Israel. Levi 
went into this fight upon his own hook ; is Levi entitled to 
any credit for this ? Not a word of it. It is Grod demon- 
strating to his creature man that his law is king. 

This contest in Israel is required to show who is the 
bride among the seven churches to the law of Moses. As 
the literal Moses was gone forty years, and then returned 
with his literal wife, Zipporah, who was chosen from among 
the seven daughters of Eeuel, so the law of Moses that left 
this land in 1821, and which is brought back by the tribe 
Levi, in 1861, is given to show not only what the husband 
is, but who is the bride to the husband. Leah was the bride 
with the civil law of England, as the husband at the coming 
of Levi. These are not God's husband and bride. At the birth 
of Levi, Leah said, "Now will my husband be joined to me." 
The law of Levi as the husband and the church law of 
Judah as the bride, are the laws of God, and both of these 
must come of Judah. These must be united upon the laws 
of God and not the laws of human kings. If the husband 
says, ''Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors servant," the 
bride must say the same thing, " Servants be obedient to 
y^our masters." 

The wife of Moses circumcised her son," or made him 
conform to the civil law of Moses, and threw it at the feet 
of Moses, saying, " Thou art to me a bloody husband." So 
the bride or church conforming to the law of Moses will find 
this law a bloody husband. The "Nahash," begotten by 
the disobedience of Adam and Eve, stands to oppose God 
and his laws. Through blood they are to triumph over 
this natural man. The bride of Moses was an Ethiopian 
woman ; so the bride to the law of Moses must be a bride 
that recognizes the Ethiopian as a member of the church, 
and that hold him as "A servant of tribute." Aaron and 
Miriam may complain of this. It matters not. God is sov- 
ereign, and he will strike with leprosy all who oj^pose his 
action. God will choose his own queen. If it be little 
Esther, the hated Jewess, of whom no one thought, he has 
promised her the half of his kingdom — it is the soul half. 
The Ham-man, or natural man, may not like it. In order 
:to prevent the union, this Ham-an may build his gallows 
very high. No'^ matter, the Mordieca at the gate will not 
bow to him. God has decreed his laws shall get upon the 
king's horse. Not only will Golioh be slain, but Uriah, the 



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friend of David, and if the friend of David, the friend of 
God, must go in the front of the battle. Who is this- 
Uriah ? Episcopal Euth and Congregational Orpha, are 
God's Uriah. Episcoj^al Washington and Presbyterian^ 
Jackson, who stands as their representatives in this contest, 
in which "Levi places whole burnt sacrifice upon the altar;" 
Bishop Leonidas Polk and Stonewall Jackson. Put Uriah in- 
the front of the battle. The bride to the law of Moses must 
come of the tribe of Judah. The bride will bear the name 
of both the first judge of the seventh head of law, and the- 
irst apostle of the seventh head of gos^^el. Who are these ? 
Joshua and Andrew. These are Joshua Saul, and James 
Andrew. Are these out of the right tribes to build the- 
Tabernacle ? AYe shall see before we are done. 
\ It is the tribe of Levi that holds the " Urim and Thum- 
mim" that reflects the divine will. These are light and per- 
fection. The Thummim and Urim worn by the priests was 
intended to reflect the divine will. The will of God was re- 
flected upon it in all questions of the literal Israel, until 
God raised up pro2:)liets to take the place of the Thurmim 
and Urim. The tribe of Levi in this land who has an 
inheritance, because Joseph becomes his substitute, 
is^e tribe chosen to reflect the divine will. This tribe in 
Israel took more pains to have Ham orally taught and in- 
structed in the law of gospel, than any other tribe in Israel. 
It was his own William Capers that provided the catachism 
for Ham's benefit. This tribe has never been willino;, like 
the other tribes, to yield the greater to the less. If the 
law of Moses for the government of man collided with the • 
law of union, when the one or the others had to yield, he 
always followed Moses rather than the law of man. In this 
respect he holds the Thurmim and Urim. The two tribes of 
Levi and Judah, are the only two of the first settlement of 
this Japhetic Israel, that were among the first seven that 
put up the Southern Confederacy. These two stand for 
Moses and Christ, and are the two wings with which the 
cheribim covered his face. " With twain he covered his 
face, with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did 
fly." Let these thoughts suffice for Levi. Judah is the 
tribe with which Leah was going to " praise the Lord," and 
as he gives the national name, as to him all the tribes are to 
" bow down," we will leave Judah and pass to the consider- 
ation of the two servant maid's four children. 

The two of Eachel are Dan and Naphtali. The first , 
born is Dan, and is Tennessee. God's laws are doubled ac- 
cording to the double j^rophecy of Noah, or the double • 
covenants set in Abraham. The Israel of law, and the Israel'. 



■ 78 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

of both law and gospel, have respect to the double nature 
of man. There are agreeing correspondents in Israel and 
direct opposites. Cain and Seth are agreeing correspon- 
dents, while the " Nahash," begotten of Adam and Eve, are 
the direct opposite; Shem and Japheth are agreeing cor- 
respondents, while Ham is the direct opposite ; Isaac and 
Ishmael are agreeing correspondents, while Babylon and 
Egypt are the oj^posite ; Esau and Jacob are both agreeing 

: and opposing correspondents ; Joseph and Benjamin are 
agreeing correspondents, while the ten brethren of Joseph 
are his opposites ; Rachel finds an agreeing correspondent 
in Leah, while in Jezebel she finds a " woman that rides a 
scarlet colored beast." The double types of the Israel from 

: Shem, as twelve patriarchs and twelve apostles, will find a 
double settlement in the Israel of Japheth before Israel 
will find both his agreeing and opposing correspondents. 
The laws are only perfect when without the failure of a 
''jot or tittle " they come to Moses for the body and Christ 

; for the soul or church. 

The whole lot of children that make the settlement of 
the Israel of law, in this land of Japheth's enlargement, 
were Leah's, as Reuben and Judah, or the first, and the last 

~ were Leah's. If all the tribes and all the churches be Leah's, 
how can any part be Rachel's ? That latitude which Leah 
has claimed in those extremes which she has used, as ex- 

;, pressed by her son Reuben, such as •' governments are b}' 
consent and religion is free," has included all manner of gov- 
ernments and religion, and in doing this has also included 
those laws for which Rachel, as the word of Cod, stands. A 
second settlement was necessary to show what things of the 
first Avere Rachel's and what Leah's. The joint holding of 
the husband after the seven years of war, or the seven years 
of service, for both Rachel and Leah is intended to show at 
which tribes the law is approved, and at which it is not ap- 
proved because it is Leah's. The two of Rachel that were 
set up at Philadelphia as summaries of laws to all the rest, 
were all that she claimed in the first settlement of Israel. 
These were by that act desio^nated as the heads to be fol- 
lowed in finding the laws of Rachel as husband and bride. 
The first born of the four that were territories, settled 
by the other tribes in the second settlement of this demon- 
strative Israel was Tennessee, and is in agreement with the 
first born of Rachel's maid servant. Rachel said at the birth 
of this child to Jacob, " Give me children or I die." Jacob 
replied, "Am I in the stead of God that I can give you chil- 
dren?" Rachel, standing for the laws of God, had not had 

' one single tribe among the whole twelve at first born, and as 



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such, the laws of God, for which she stood, would die in this 
land if thus it should continue. The reply of Jacob shows 
the nature of the prophecy. It is about this in substance : 
Kachel, I move as " God the Holy Ghost " will move in 
Israel, and you move as the laws of God, and you cannot 
have children until the time comes for us to set the types of 
Israel's history. Eachel's maid servant pressed hard upon 
her knees and brought forth a son. At his birth, Eachel 
said, " The Lord hath judged me," and she called his name 
Dan. Jacob said of Dan, '-Dan shall judge his people as a 
tribe in Israel." This judging of his people by the tribe 
of Dan, could not refer to the first Israel in this land, because 
Dan was then a part of this Simeon which belonged to the 
tribes of whom Judah was the last. This prophecy of Jacob 
must then refer to the second settlement of Israel. 

Eachel said, "The Lord hath judged me." Jacob said 

. Dan should judge for himself How did Dan judge in this 
matter? Dan submitted to the voice of the 23eople about 
Avhether he would come with Israel, or go to the " virgin 
daughter of Babylon." The Lord's judging and Dan's 
judgment are used as synonymous terms between Eachel 
and Jacob. Dan is (perhaps) the only tribe in Israel that 
submitted his case to the voice of the whole people. What 
then, as a principle of law to govern Israel, is learned from 
the action of the tribe of Dan ? The voice of the people in 
their tribe capacity, when, according to the law of Moses, is 
the voice of God. This was the principle of law that ruled 
in Israel, before Israel departed from it by following the 
law of nature. When David, as the civil law, was annointed 
king in Israel, it was upon the doctrine of " local charters," 
"States rights." Sarah, the law of gospel, was restored by 
Egypt to Abra-Ham with all that Abraham had. This was 

. at" the rise of the United States. All the tribes held Ham 
to be a servant in the stead of Canaan, the son to literal 
Israel, according: to the second covenant made in Abra-Ham. 
In violation of this lavv' of God and Moses, Eeuben said, 

• " Governments are by the consent of the governed," and 
"All men are born free and equal." It is to no use for 
Eeuben to say there was a spirit to the law not expressed in 
the declaration. God will be honored not only in the spirit 
of the law, but in the letter of its reading. Had Eeuben 
said, " Governments are by consent of the sons of Japheth, 
when taken in their tribe capacity, provided they are in 
agreement with the law of Moses, it would have been the 
truth. Man can no more violate the political or soul laws 
of God and go unpunished, than he can violate the laws of 
gravitation." In this ^ respect the iniquities of the fathers 



80 THE MYSTERY FINISHED^.. 

will be visited upon the children, in this present state of 'maiiv 
to the third and fourth generation." God moves with a 
trinity in all things. At the "breaking of the day," or- 
reformation, the three names of Luther, Zuingle, Calvin, 
area trinity. The same is true in reference to John Wesley, 
Charles Wesley, and Whitfield, at the. "cleansing of the 
sanctuary." These are as executive, legislative and judiciali 
These are a trinity, because of the opinions they hold or' 
represent. The same is true in reference to the three men- 
as Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, which were the candi- 
dates for judge in this land at the division of Israel. Let us^ 
glance at the application of the laws which these represent 
to the characters for which they stand. Luther follows the 
letter of the reading of the law, " This is my body. Zuin- 
gle gives the spirit to the letter, and says it is to be received 
as any other symbol, such as, "lam the door," "I am the 
vine," &c. Calvin stands to this spirit and letter as the 
elect holding the laws as the elect for the government of 
men, in this liie, while the elect of the future life are those 
who themselves choose to elect. Turning to the civil repre- 
sentatives of this land — Lincoln holds the letter of the read- 
ing, all men are born equal ; Douglas holds the spirit to the^ 
letter, and urges that the author of the declaration, in the- 
declaration prefers a charge against the mother country, 
for producing " domestic insurrections," which shows a 
spirit to the letter not contained in the letter. This an- 
tagonism between letter and sj^irit drives Breckinridge to- 
set up the elect that is to combine both spirit and letter to- 
make them harmonize the one with the other. A simple 
glance at these great truths is all that can be indulged in. 

The tribe of Dan, the son of Eachel, is given to show 
that the voice of the people, is the voice of God in their- 
tribe capacity, when according to the fundamental law tO' 
govern Israel. This fundamental law acknowledges Ham 
as a servant throughout the whole boundary of Israel. 
This law does not force him as a servant where his labor is- 
of no use, yet should he escape to such place or tribe, that 
tribe cannot violate the law of Moses in not recognizing 
him in his true relation as a " servant of tribute," and in 
rendering him back to the one whose "money he is by the 
law of God." 

Jacob said, "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an 
adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels so that the 
rider shall fall backwards." The geographical position of 
the tribes will, in every instance, be found in agreement 
with the prophecy. Dan is the only tribe in Israel that is 
geographically like an adder, long and narrow, stretching a. 



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great ways across the whole of IsraeL While this is a liter- 
al truth, that principle of law, which makes him an adder, 
is the principle that he shall judge his people for himself. 

The one man power, as kings, would deprive Dan of 
this right. The same truth, as the divine right of numbers, 
exercised by the other tribes, would dejDrive him of the same 
right. In the first case, Saul would claim that he was the 
"Lord's annointed" and had the right to rule. In the sec- 
ond case, the virgin daughter of Babylon would claim that 
God had given her the power to rule Dan, and that as such 
she was " the Lord's annointed," to rule Dan upon her own 
interpretation of the law of God. These will each rule ac- 
cording to the times appointed. God says Dan shall judge 
for himself, and that those who say otherwise " Shall fall 
backwards." Jacobuses a parenthesis in blessing Dan, "I 
have waited for thy salvation, O, Lord!" This would indi- 
cate that powerful efforts would be made to seduce Dan to 
revoke his judgment that determined him ujDon the side of 
Israel, but these efforts would not succeed. God would 
keep him until he would save him. Moses said of Dan, 
"He shall leap fromBashan." Dan is the only tribe in Israel 
that gave an overAvhclming majority to hold on to Bashan, 
or^Asdod, and then suddenly gave a larger vote to come to 
Israel — he come with a leap. When Deboj ah sings of the 
victory of Israel, she asks, "wh}^ dwelt Dan in ships ?" Dan's 
governor has taken ship and left. If, out of Eeubeu, the 
first son of Leah came, five of the seven judges of this wing 
of Israel, out of Dan, the first son of Eachel, came the 
other two. Out of the tribe of Dan, in literal Israel, came 
the last regular Judge of Israel — his name was Samson ; the 
Philistines led him about for a Avhile, but his strength re- 
turned again. This Samson, in this Israel, is out of Dan, 
and while he is "that great prince that standeth up for 
Israel," he is " the eighth-seventh revived head of Israel 
was Andrew Jackson, the seventh ; Andrew Johnson, is the 
seventh revived head ; he is the revived head of unity in 
Israel, but not of the laws of unity. Let this sufiice for 
Dan, as we need not sj^eculate. 

The three territories of Mississippi, Alabama and Ar- 
kansas were contemporary as territories in this Israel. It is 
left to the literal facts in connection with the prophecies to 
settle the claims of these as to which of the two mothers, as 
Eachel and Leah, they belong. It will be seen that these 
are made so plain there can be no difficulty in determining. 
The tribe of Naphtali, standing for the second son of Each- 
el's maid, is Alabama. At the birth of this tribe, Eachel 
said, " With great wrestling have I wrestled with my sister, 



82 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

and I have prevailed." It was in this tribe, for the first 
time since the world began, that Grod's form of civil law for 
the body, and church law for the soul, ever met in a national 
^.ense. These laws met as civil and ceremonial in Moses, 
■and in the nation of Moses ; they met symbolically on 
David, they met in truth on " the Christ;" they met in a 
civil government and in a collective church in Naphtali, in 
the year 1861, as a place and a character. Bachel as the 
word or laws of God " prevailed." The laws which met 
symbolically on Moses, the sixth head of law, or on Christ, 
the sixth head of gospel, met in Naphtali, as the sixth tribe 
in this Japhetic Israel. These met by a union of the seventh 
head as judges, and the seventh as the apostles with the 
heads of both out of Judah, as the law-giver in this Japhetic 
Israel. These were the seventh nation, each with seven 
heads, and the seventh church, and they are David the 
seventh son, and Bathsheba the seventh daughter ; the 
head of the civil was Jefferson Davis, and the head of the 
•church was Bishop James Andrew, the same apostle, first 
•chosen at the seventh head as "the apostles." The civil 
law-giver was from between the literal feet of the literal 
Judah, while the "Shiloh," the head of the church, was out 
of the tribe of Judah. j^obody is to be praised or blamed. 
It is not you but the God that made the world, trying to 
" save life, and not to destroy." This union could never 
have been formed so long as the husband and the bride 
w^ere antagonistic to each other. The laws of God, as writ- 
ten in his word, and which are Eachel, had to become " the 
head stone of the corner," and not the " Nahash," with 
Cain and Seth, or Ham. with Shem and Japheth. If Moses 
said Canaan should serve Japheth, Paul affirmed it, and for 
the bride to teach "slavery is a great evil," and to inquire 
^' what shall be done for the extcrpation of slavery," was 
the bride taking council of the "Nahash," and not of the 
taws of God. When the bride published her laws to the 
world, in conformity to Moses, and the husband also con- 
formed, "Eachel prevailed." This was done by both parties 
in the year 1861. 

The civil government put up at Mongomery, Ala., by the 
seven tribes, that move with the seven heads of Israel, and 
which stands as " the seven eyes of God," and the church 
cleansed at the end of 2400 years, by the coming of Andrew 
out of the tribe of Judah, are in substance th(3 same as the 
two sons of Eachel, "Benjamin and Joseph." These are 
the children over which "Eachel weeps," and will not be 
comforted because " they are not." The times for these to 
suffer "reproach " are not yet numbered ; the measures are 



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not yet full for these to prophecy in sackcloth and ashes ; 
as in the dividing sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, JSTaomi and 
Euth, Catholic Mary and Protestant Elizabeth, God 
made Elizabeth a negro trader ; so in the division of the 
gospel church in this land which takes its date from Judah, 
God made Bishop James Andrew, who was the only Bishop 
in the Southern wing of the church, a slave holder, Esdras 
asked the Almighty why he went into the field, to change 
the temple or house to a woman ? The reply was, " I go 
where no man's building is," that is, "I do it myself; I will 
"build it in my own way, and by my own laws ; the rejected 
stone shall become the head stone of the corner." If God 
says, "Ham the father of Canaan, the son, shall serve Jap- 
heth," men need not soften the word' slavery down by "do- 
mestic institutions." It is against the laws of nature that 
God and his laws are at war. The light of nature is his ex- 
ponent. Ham is a beast in all lands without Shem or Jap- 
heth to help him-rise above the beast. God says he is not 
a beast, but was made in his image ; that image is so marred 
that, of himself, he can never rise above the beast, nor can 
•he ever rise by understanding a complex law, when God has 
demonstrated it ; yet Abra-IIam must heir the world ; this 
he cannot do while Ham is a beast ; this he could never do 
if Ham is left to himself, hence he must be made a " servant 
of servants," This appears as the means of Heaven's or- 
daining to bring Ham to the covenants set in Abraham as 
law and gospel. Jacob said of Naphtali, "Naphtali is a hind 
let loose, he giveth goodly words." The hind is the symbol 
of a traveling, moving clergy. As the hind scales bights, 
and leaps vales, so with the clergy heading the gospel 
church. This hind could never be " let loose " and give 
''goodly words " so long as his church law contradicted 
Closes. When he ordered it all blotted out in the year 1858, 
■and when it was done, in truth, by the year 1861, all of which 
times (as will hd seen) are measured, then Naphtali "gave 
goodly words." Moses said of Naphtali, " O, Naphtali, sat- 
isfied with favor, and full with the blessing of the Lord, 
possess thou the South and the West." It is enough. Eachel 
prevails, and Moses says, "full with the blessing of the 
Lord." Eachel's servant ought to be satisfied with this. 
The "Book of God," in its two departments, as civil and 
soul laws, has come together. These have met in a South 
land. The same place in which Jacob found his " father's 
house." That compromise line which was required to bring 
the laws together, will notnow be needed for the West. The 
-demonstrated laws of God will become their substitute when 
-the "scales falls from the eyes of Saul or Benjamin, of Tar- 



84 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

sus "' by the shining of a great light. This Saul will see - 
that it was an act of sovereignty alone with God to transfer 
the government from Saul to David, or from Benjamin to 
Judah or Joseph ; this Joseph may go in prison, and they 
may "put his feet in fetters." The literal Joseph was two 
years in prison; these as types will find their anti-type. 
Men have no idea of letting this "dreamer," as the laws of 
God, rule them. No matter — it will go just as God has 
marked it out ; there will not be one mistake or one acci- 
dent. God told Moses how it would all go and how it would 
stand in " the last da^'s." There has not been one mistake > 
for four thousand years, and it will keep moving that same 
way. This world belongs to the son of God, and neither 
the " Nahash " of Adam, nor the Ham of Noah shall hold 
it ; it is God's decree ; the sword must reign till all things 
are given to the rightful owner. The tribe of Naphtali is • 
the only tribe in this Israel that was admitted into this sec- 
ond settlement of Israel without one word of dispute about 
Ham. Eachel "prevailed." We must pass over the reasons ^ 
for this. The two children of Leah's maid servant are Gad 
and Asher ; Gad is Arkansas, and Asher is Mississippi. 

At the birth of Gad, Leah said a " troop cometh." The - 
tribe of Gad was the dividing tribe in Israel. The half way 
was between Naphtali, as the sixth, and Gad, as the seventh. 
This division made the balance in the literal Israel an equal 
one, as six upon one side, and six upon the other. The tribe 
of Gad, in this respect, stands as the" doubting Thomas " ' 
among the apostles. As the second Southern judge in this - 
land bought the second half of Israel, as the doubting 
Thomas Jefferson, and stands to represent the second half 
of Israel, so it is with the tribe of Gad ; Gad is the first 
tribe in Israel to represent the second half of Israel. The 
tribe of Ephraim as Missouri, is only a half tribe ; the tribe 
of Benjamin, or Texas, is after that of Gad ; as the tribe of 
Gad is the tribe of equilibrium in Israel, so was he admit- 
ted into the union upon the doctrine of " equilibrium " in 
government. This, as a principle of human government, is 
the doctrine of Leah, and not that of Eachel. The sword 
must forever remain the arbiter in the world, if it is to be 
governed by the changing laws of equilibrium. Human 
opinions will jostle that equilibrium, and the sword will be 
drawn to adjust the balance. Eachel, standing for God's 
written laws, knows nothing of equilibrium, or balance in 
power. The tribe of Gad likewise stands to represent the 
second half of Israel — the troop made up of the one half 
because the balance is lost comes against the other half. 

Jacob said of Gad, "A troop would overcome him, but 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 85 

'he would overcome at the last." This is only a different 

form of presenting the "two witnesses that were to be 

killed," and yet they were to stand upon their feet again. 

'The same fact is joresented in the gallows Haman built for 

Mordicai, and upon which he gets himself 

Moses said of Gad, "Blessed be he that enlargeth G-ad." 
The tribe of Gad, like that of Ephraim, set the western 
boundary of Israel. The Missouri Compromise not only 
divided Israel North and South, but set the western bounda- 
ry of Israel, (Thomas II. Benton,) as this compromise was 
required for a special work to cut off the demonstrative 
Israel; after it is done. Gad will be "enlarged." Moses said 
of Gad : that he was seated in a portion of the law-giver, 
and he provided the first part for himself. There are two 
law-givers to Israel, these are Ej^hraim and Judah. Judah 
is Georgia, Ephraim is Missouri. This prophecy is doubly 
true in reference to these law-givers. If it was forty years 
from Judah to Philadelphia ; so it is forty years from 
Ephraim in 1821, to JSTaphtali, the place of Eachel triumph. 
If Judah gives the national name to Israel, the tribe of Gad 
was first seated in that part of Israel that first crossed the 
Jordan. If Ephraim be the law-giver, he was a part of the 
territory of Ephraim. Gad is the only tribe in which the 
prophecy is doubly fulfilled. Moses said of Gad, he " dwel- 
leth as a lion and tearcth the arm with the crown of the 
head." Gad, the servant of Leah, holds to her the relation 
that Dan does to Eachel. It was said ot Dan, " He is a 
lion's whelp." It is said of Gad, " He dwelleth as a lion." 
If the principle of Dan which says, "Dan shall judge his 
l^eople as a tribe," is God's lion to rule the world ; so Gad, 
standing to represent the second half of Israel, is the half to 
represent that wing of Israel in which the principle is con- 
tended for, in contrast with the other half that claims to 
rule by the force of numbers. Out of the half represented 
by Gad shall come the judge that holdeth the crown to tear 
the arm of power wielded by the opposing half. 

We pass to learn what is taught by the second son of 
Leah's maid servant. This son is Asher and stands for Mis- 
sissippi. At the birth of Asher, Leah said. " Happy am I, 
for the daufi^hters will call me blessed." That which had 
been as the husband with Leah in the first settlement of 
Israel is at the birth of Asher changed to the "daughters." 
These daughters were going to organize another husband 
with its head out of Asher, and hence "the daughters will 
■ call me blessed. Jacob said in blessing Asher, "out of 
Asher," that head which the daughters were going to j^raise 
Leah for, and which was to come from " between the feet of 



86 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Judah," was to come out of the tribe of Aslier, and thegov-- 
ernment over which he was to rule was to set up in JSTaphtali, 
as the other foot of Judah. Jacob said, " His bread shall 
be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties." He is the man 
chosen to represent God's form of civil law, as the husband 
to the bride, and when this fact is established the good that 
will come to the world will be " royal dainties." Moses said,. 
" Let Asher be blessed with children, let him be acceptable 
to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil." " Thy shoes, 
shall be iron and brass, and as thy day is, so shall thy 
strength be." 

How far individual men in this Israel will be used for- 
the laws they are given to represent, cannot be known till 
it is finished. As in typical Israel, man}^ persons were used 
before the ideas for which they stand are perfected, so in 
this Japhetic Israel it may require many different persons 
to perfect the ideas for which they stand. The union of 
God's laws that meet in Naphtali, the civil head ot which 
comes from the tribe of Asher, are as " iron and brass." 
These are more unchangeable than the laws of the 
"Medes and Persians." They are God's legs of iron to 
break up all human laws, and as they will cover the world, 
"Asher will be blessed with children." 

Why is the tribe of Asher Leah's and not Eachel's ?" 
This tribe represents a division in Israel, whereas Eachel 
has no division. While the man of Asher holds the civil 
law of Israel, he does not represent the law of the souL 
Euth is the servant of Leah and not that of Eachel ; Euth> 
is the church of England, Eachel is John Wesley, and then 
James Andrew, out of Judah. AVill this head out of Asher- 
save Israel ? As the Earth at first was divided between. 
Jokton and Eber, so is this land of Israel divided between, 
Eber and Asher. God's prophet says, "Aslier shall not save 
us." Balaam, the prophet of the natural man, who had his 
eyes open, says of Asher and of Eber, " Ships from the coast 
of Chittim shall afilict Asher and carry him away captive. 
These shall in like manner carry Eber away, and he shall 
perish forever." This is in keeping with "the troop that 
was to overcome Gad, yet in the end he was to overcome." 
It is like to the rider of Dan that was to fall backwards ; it 
is the same with Levi, "Strike through the loins of them 
that rise up against him, that they rise not again." Itis- 
remarkable that in the last contest of the laws of God with 
the laws of man, that the Israel chosen to represeat the^ 
laws should have to go over the whole history of Israel. 

Let these thoughts suflfice for the four sons of the maid- 
servants to Eachel and Leah. If Leah divides Israel with 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 8T 

her son Asher, xiachel scatters Israel with her son Dan; if 
Leah teaches the doctrine of equilibrium in government 
with her son, Gad, Eachel shows the union of the laws of 
God with her son, ISTaphtali; Dan and ISTaphtali are to Eachel 
as Benjamin and Joseph ; Asher and Gad are to Leah as 
Eeuben and Simeon. 

We come now to consider the two tribes of Leah, given 
to show who is a servant of tribute according to the divine^ 
law, and who is not. These are Issachar and Zebulon, or- 
Louisiana and Florida. Louisiana is the tribe Issachar, and 
is the first tribe begotten with a bargain and sale between 
Eachel and Leah. In order to show the nature of this, 
transaction, it is stated that Eeuben, the son of Leah, went, 
out into the fields in the da^'s of wheat harvest and found 
mandrakes, which mandrakes Eachel requested Leah to- 
give her, saying, " Give me your[son's mandrakes." Leah 
told Eachel, "Thou hast taken my husband, and would you 
now take my son's mandrakes." Eachel said, "Give me 
your son's mandrakes, and he shall be with thee lo-night.'" 
Leah went out in the field that evening to meet Jacob, and 
told him he must be with her to-night, and the child begot- 
ten by this transaction, Leah called Issachar, saying, " The 
Lord hath given me my hire." AVhen Jacob come to bless 
this tribe he said, "Issachar is a strong ass, couching down 
between two burdens, he saw that rest was good, and the 
land that it was pleasant, and he bowed his shoulder to bear 
and became a servant to tribute." 

This is the only time, among all the tribes born of 
Leah, that she ever had Jacob as " God the Holy Ghost," 
for a husband. At the birth of the tribe of Judah, she was 
going to " praise the Lord." This action, in literal fact, has 
precedence over either of the children belonging to the 
maid servants, except the tribe of Dan, according to the 
manner in wliich Jacob blesses them, yet they have beeii 
considered according to the order of the birth of each, and 
not according to the order of the blessing. This tribe stands 
for the Louisiana purchase, in this Israel, and in using a 
literal land to represent human actions, characters and prin- 
ciples of government, the child begotten is Ham the servant 
of tribute ; he is tiiat child begotten in the Japhetic Israel 
that changed Abram as law with the first covenant in Judah 
with Canaan, the son of Ham, to Abra-Ham, the father of 
Canaan. In the Israel of Shem, he was subjugated and 
made a servant of tribute. In the Israel of Japheth he was 
to be begotten by a bargain and sale, according to the lit- 
eral prophetic act of Leah and Eachel. This is in agreement 
with the teaching of Isaaih. Speaking of the restored 



88 THE MTSTERY FINISHED. 

Japhetic Israel, lie uses the following language: (We give 
the substance,) " Strong men, the merchandise of Ethiopia, 
and the Sabeans,men of statue; they shall come over to thee, 
in chains shall they come, and they shall fall down before 
thee, saying G-od is with thee, and they shall be thine, and 
there is no other God but the God of thee, who thus decrees." 

Eeuben. laid a tax upon the wheat fields and the tobac- 
co fields that he might gather tythes for his mother, Leah, 
in days when he had an established religion. As Eachel 
intended to change this method of gathering tythes accord- 
ing to the teachings of the ISTew Testament, " Let each one 
give," she asked Leah, the established church, to "give" 
her these tythes. It is evident from what Leah then said, 
that Rachel had the husband or civil government that scat- 
tered Levi. This announcement is made at the Louisiana 
purchase in 1803-4. It is also evident that the African 
Slave Trade was then carried on while Eachel had the hus- 
band. Eeuben had attempted to break it up since he defiled 
himself by the ordinance 1787. Simeon, as God's agent, 
stood to oppose him. Leah got possession of the husband 
by the year 1808. This was right, as by that time enough 
of Ham had been brought over for a demonstrative purpose. 
A double action was to be had ; this had respect to Ham as 
a servant of tribute, and also to the method of collecting 
tythes by the church. The whole action is projjhetic. 

Leah met Jacob coming in the field. If Isaac met Ee- 
becca coming in the field, it was the prophetic sign that the 
gospel church would date its rise with preaching in the 
field. " I go where no man's building is." If " Eed Esau " 
was a man of the field, he was a roving hunter. If Sarah 
and Eebecca were both "fair women," it is because they 
stand for gospel given to the fair or Japhetic race. If in 
the case of Issaphar, the servant, Leah, met Jacob coming 
in the field, it is the prophetic sign that the place for the 
character beootten was the field for labor as the "servant of 
tribute," that is, he is not a mechanic, he is not a merchant, 
but he is merchandise ; he is not a professor, he is not a law- 
maker. It was in the evening Leah met Jacob, to show he 
worked all the day. Leah said, "the Lord hath give mem}^ 
hire." Jacob tells what that hire is. Issachar saw that the 
land was pleasant. This servant finds no pleasant land in 
all the world onl}^ as the servant of tribute to Shem and 
Japheth. This is his history, afiirmed by the light of nature 
as God's exponent of his truth. Why does he find no pleas- 
ant land ? His love of rest is too great. It is a question 
not easily determined whether it is more difficult to get 
Shem and Jajiheth to refrain from labor on the seventh day 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 89 

than it is to get Ham to labor six da^^s in the seven. If 
God intends to be the master of the one party by the sword 
and by his demonstrated truth to their understanding, he 
forces it uj)on them to master tlie other, so as to bring the 
whole to one single law. Abraham, the representative of 
the laws of God, must take the world, " possessor of heaven 
and earth." 

Let us now look at this question in the light in which 
God presents them to the understanding of men in his own 
exjDlanation of his own truth. 

The trinity of '• Father, Son and Holy Ghost " is as the 
trinity of law, gospel and the union of the two. These are 
represented by Abraham, Isaac, and a union of the two in 
Jacob. The substitutes of these in a literal or political sense 
are Shem, Ham and Japheth. Isaac, the second person, 
stands as the " Son." As the Son, he is the " Eli-as " the 
God servant, to save. Ham, the second person, is the Isaac-er 
This is his name, and it is Isaac-er. This Isaac-er is "the 
ass," as the opposite of the Eli-as. This ass is the servant 
of tribute. If the Eli-as couches between two burdens, they 
are beneath the two laws of God to save the world as civil 
and soul laws, or body and soul. If the Isaac-er, as a strong 
ass, "couches between two burdens," they are God's two 
curses: " cursed is the ground, and cursed is Canaan, or 
Ham, or Isaac-er — a servant of servants shall he be to his 
lorethren." 

As the literal in this land is up with the symbolic, that 
literal tribe, as Louisiana, for which he stands, is divided 
into two parts by the Mississippi river, to represent the 
•double curse or the two burdens. This is the only tribe 
thus divided. 

This important question does not stop here. The learn- 
ing one symbolic truth opens the way to another, and it is 
"by finding out these symbols that the book of God can be 
made as readable as any other book. " Issachar is an ass," 
and this ass is a " servant of tribute," in contrast with the 
servant to atone, or save, or enlighten. This ass " bowed 
his shoulder to bear, and became a servant of tribute." The 
Christ, upon whom the laws of God met, rode into Jerusa- 
lem upon an " ass, the foal of an ass." The nation of the 
■Christ in the land of Japheth's enlargement over Shem sets 
up the laws for which Jerusalem stood as Benjamin and 
Judah, by riding "the ass, the servant of tribute." Saul, 
"the first king ofthe literal Israel by the will of man, follow- 
ing the ^N'ahash and not the law of God, was made king 
w^hile in pursuit of his father's asses. Saul was made king- 
in this land while in pursuit of his father's asses or servants. 



90 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Abra-ham is law, and was law in this land when all the' 
tribes held the ass as a servant of tribute. This law for 
which Abraham stood was at the end of the seventh head as 
judges from either wing of this Israel, whether as James 
Polk or James Buchanan, changed into a law of force, and 
it became Saul, and this was done while Saul was in search 
of his father's asses. This Saul came out of the tribe of 
Eenjamin in the Israel of Shem. He came out of National 
Benjamin in this Japhetic Israel, though with the tribe of 
Benjamin in National Judah. The seventh head as Jas. Polk 
closed law with National Judah. Law with him, like the 
literal Abraham, went through the land and landed at the 
Pacific Ocean. Then it was Saul came in the shape of the 
" Wilmot Proviso," which said to Judah, you shall have no 
more territory for your asses to work. At the end of the 
seventh head, from national Benjamin, as James Buchanan^ 
this Saul came from national Benjamin, and not only from 
national Benjamin, but from between the tribes with which 
Eeuben defiled himself by the ordinance of 1787. The 
Israel from Shem still claimed Abraham for their father^ 
notwithstanding every departure made from the law for 
which Abraham stood, so with the Israel of Jaj^heth, they 
still claim to be seed of Abraham, without respect to the 
law for which Abraham stood. The literal Saul left the 
word of God, and went to the " witch of Endor," to learn 
the divine will. The witch of Endor is the symbol of the 
" spirit rappers " in this Israel. The end of Saul was tragi- 
cal, he was killed by his armor-bearer, and fell upon his own 
sword. It was an act of sovereignty to transfer the king- 
dom from Saul to David, or from Benjamin to Judah. By 
force Saul said it should not be done. That force for which 
he contended was his armor-bearer, and according as man 
sows, so he shall reap is the law of God. Facts stand like- 
mountains in the way, but as nobody is to blame, only that 
God chooses thus to prove to his poor creature man, his- 
right to rule him, we will touch lightly. When all are 
guilty, none have the right to throw stones. It was said to- 
Saul, " Your father's asses are found, but come thou and 
rule over us." The Missouri Compromise line in this Israel 
found the father's asses in national Judah and without 
Simeon or Saul, to drive Israel as God's whip, the truth that 
God set out to demonstrate, would never have been learned. 
When Abraham went to oifer Isaac, that is, when law went 
to offer both law and gospel, he rode an ass. When the na- 
tion of law in this land offers the nation of both law and 
gospel, like Abraham it rides "the ass." The daughter of 
Caleb, representing Judah, lit off of her ass, saying, " Fath- 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 91 

er tlioii hast given me a South land, give me springs of 
water." Caleb told her she should have " both the upper 
and the nether spring." This ass off of which this daughter 
has lit in this land is " the servant of tribute. 

Samson, the last judge in Israel, and which stood as the 
summary of all the judges, the same as Joshua was the 
synopsis, said, "Heaps upon heaps have I slain with the jaw 
bone of an ass." Heaps upon heaps has this Samson slain 
in this Israel with jawing over the ass. When Samson be- 
came weary and was very thirsty, there came up a spring in 
the jawbone, with the water of which he slaked his thirst; 
Samson's riddle solves itself in this land. Out of this bitter 
there will come a sweetness, and out of this weakness there 
will come strength, and out of this thirst or desert, springs- 
of water will break out. The light is shining, though the- 
darkness does not yet comprehend it. " That determinedi 
on must be accomplished." 

This servant of tribute whom Jacob said was an ass is sl 
man, and he speaks with the voice of a man. When Balaam 
went the second time to curse Israel, he rode an ass. Baal 
is the God of the natural man, and he is the law of nature 
or the Nahash. Balak is the king of the natural man, and 
Balaam is his prophet, he prophesies according to the laws 
of nature ; the prophets of God prophecy according to the- 
laws of God. Balaam says, "All men are equal." God's- 
laws and God's prophets say they are not. Balaam will be 
forced to the truth before he is done according to the pattern 
set him in his arch-type. When Balaam was sent the second 
time td curse Israel or the second nationalitv of Israel, he 
rode an ass. As he was riding along, the ass saw an angel 
in the path and refused to go, whereupon Balaam smote 
the ass three times. The ass remonstrated against 
Balaam, and said to him, " Ha\e I not been thine ass upon 
which thou hast ridden, and when have I disobeyed you,, 
and now these three times has thou smitten me?" The ass> 
of Balaam ran him up to where two ways met and mashed 
his foot against the wall. The ass is the talking servant ; 
this servant says to Balaam, " Have I not been thy servant 
to labor for you? Have I not contributed to your wealth. 
and to the building of your great cities, and have kept 
nothing but the land upon which I labor for your benefit?' 
AVhen you wanted promotion to honor, you have ridden me. 
When we wanted representation in the national law, you 
smote us and gave us only three-fifths. When we wanted 
territory to work, you denied it, and said we should have no 
more. ]^ow you have given us our freedom, and have thus 
taken us from our normal position in which we had a mas- 



':92 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

ter to care for US. These three times has thou smitten us. 
If we are left in this relation we will become exterminated. 
In doing this you have overthrown one law of Israel as ' States 
rights,' 'local charters,' and have made it all consolidation. 
Between these you will find the two cannot be made to agree 
upon your notions, and you will get your foot mashed." 

There is no need to enlarge the subject in this particu- 
lar. The second covenant, which God set with Abraham, 
was in view of his offering Isaac upon the altar. Isaac is to 
Abraham as soul to body. If the question be considered in 
its theological aspect, every living man is required to offer 
his Isaac upon the altar. He must take his natural law or 
natural religion, and bring it to the law of God. This law 
teaches " Ye must be born aarain." In this offerins: he is not 
to confer with flesh and blood, but he must do as did Abra- 
ham, in offering Isaac. If man waits till he understands 
the philosophy of how his supernatural part can be born 
again, he will never offer his Isaac upon the altar ; like 
Abraham, he must do it because God says so. It may seem 
to be the death of him to do it, but by faith it must be done. 
Instead of its proving the death of his Isaac, it will only be 
the death of the ram caught by two horns, as the laws of 
the natural man, or Nahash that is in every man. It is the 
placing of the Ham that is in him upon the altar. 

This is an individual matter, and is the theological part 
of the question. With the work of the sons of Aaron, we 
pretend not to meddle, yet one remark in this connection 
may be required. As faith is the principle of justification 
in placing Isaac upon the altar, unless it be kept as an ac- 
tive principle, Isaac ceases to be offered. If ceremonies be- 
'Come the substitute, it is Hager and her son usurping the 
place of Sarah and her son, and it is declared Hager and 
her son shall not be heir with the son of Sarah. We only fol- 
low God's symbols, and pretend not to dictate to those whom 
God calls to teach his truth. 

As the history of the individual man is the history of 
Israel in his political and soul relations, the political nation 
for which Abraham stands is called upon to offer Isaac u])otl 
iihe altar. This Isaac is the laws of the nation which met 
'on "the Christ," the Isaac of God. As the laws cannot 
-exist without a subject for their action, there must be com- 
ponent bodies in which they do exist. That the laws may 
'exist, as in " mystical Eabylon," when the woman was hid 
in the convent of Eome, is true. They existed only as a 
hidden light, without any organized bodies for the laws' ac- 
tion. A nation taking the kingdom is a nation of compo- 
nent parts, organized upon the principles of laws that con- 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 93 

stitute the kingdom. That nation is the Isaac among the 
nations, and also the Isaac of Abra-ham. If the laws that 
make the kingdom teach in both departments that the liter- 
al Ham is a " servant of tribute " in offering the laws that 
make Isaac, it follows that Ham must also be offered with 
the laws. The service which the laws demand from Ham 
must cease while Isaac is upon the altar. The symbolic ac- 
tion demands the offering. When the ram is caught by two 
horns and becomes the substitute for the laAvs of God that 
met in Isaac, the laws of the natural for both civil and 
church will give place to the laws of God for which Isaac or 
Abra-ham stands. Will this restore Ham to his true rela- 
tions as a servant of tribute ? So the types affirm, '' It will, 
bring the laws oat of Babylon the same as the two tribes of 
the literal Israel came from Babylon, or the same as the 
Book of God for which the two tribes stood, came out of' 
"mystical Babylon." In the first case, the two tribes, Ben- 
jamin and Judah, standing for law and gospel, brought the 
men and maid servants with them out of the literal Baby- 
lon. In coming from the "mystical Babylon," when Sarah 
the law of gospel was restored to Abraham with all that 
Abraham had, at the rise of the Israel of law as twelve 
tribes given to Japheth, or in the United States, not only 
was the book of two laws restored as the two tribes were 
restored, but Ham, as a servant of tribute, was also restored. 
Macauly says : " Moral causes noiselessly effaced the distinc- 
tion of master and slave in England." If he had said, the 
confessional of the "man of sin standing in the temple of 
God, and making out as if he were God," by following the 
laws of nature, and not the laws of God, effaced the distinc- 
tion of master and slave, he would probably have come 
nearer the truth. Every effort that God puts forth to bring 
Isi'ael to his laws, shows the normal place of Ham to be that 
of a servant of tribute. The movements of the literal Abra- 
ham are the movements of " God the Eather." Abraham is 
the greatest slaveholder, perhaps, that the Bible has in it. 
He is God's type of his own laws, once as Abram, and once 
as Abra-ham. Once as Canaan and once as Ham the father 
of Canaan. Protestant Elizabeth, who finds her opposite as 
Eome in Catholic Mary, w^as a negro-trader. God moved the 
law into the land of the South in w^hich every tribe held 
Ham as a servant of tribute, and this is the land he chooses 
with which to demonstrate his laws. Everyone of the seven 
judges from this South land, of both law and gospel, were 
slave-holders. Every one of these, except Washington, who 
stands as Joshua, are not only civil judges, but they also 
bear the names of the apostles. IS'ot one of which is by ac- 



•^4 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

'Cident. These stand for both law and gospel, the same as 
did David, upon whom God's dual laws met. The only 
Southern bishop in the church which God has selected as 
the bride to the husband, and who was chosen to the office 
because he was a non-slaveholder, God made a slaveholder. 
With this array of facts in confirming the truth of God, 
*' Canaan shall serve Japheth," men are halting and slumb- 
ling the same as did the doubting Thomas. If nothing less 
than the putting the finger in the prints of the nails will 
satisfy them, they will have that before it is done. Will 
Ham be again restored to his normal position as a servant 
of tribute? This is equivalent to asking, will God's dead 
witnesses, as Moses and Christ, or civil law and soul law, 
stand upon their feet again ? For what purpose did God 
^ive man a law if he intended him to follow the law of his 
nature ? All men have souls, and are subjects to the laws' 
action. As Ham is mentally too weak to come to the laws 
-of God of himself, God has forced it upon vShem and Japheth 
to bring him to it, that all may be one in Christ, not one in 
Moses. 

What says God's types upon the restoration of Ham as 
-a servant of tribute ? Sarah, the law of gospel, was captur- 
ed twice from Abraham — once by Egypt, and once by Abi- 
milech. This Abimilech is the same as the seventh judge of 
Israel, bearing the name of Abimilech. Eebecca, the church 
of gospel, the wife of Isaac, was also captured by Abimilech. 
This Eebecca has no existence in gospel Israel till all the 
symbols for her to arise are filled. Thus must be after the 
captivity of the woman, or word of God, for 1260 years, and 
also after one arises and goes into the land of " Eed Esau," 
and then recrosses the ocean, as did Jacob the brook, to 
wrestle with the angel. Abimilech came at the end of the 
seventh judge of this Israel from the North, as James Bu- 
■ chanan, and has captured both Sarah and Eebecca. When 
he restored Eebecca, it was with all the men and maid ser- 
-^ants, and a thousand pieces of silver. Why did Abimilech. 
restore Eebecca to Isaac ? He saw Isaac sporting with her 
and took her to be his wife. When this Abimilech sees that 
God has chosen the husband and bride, in this land, by his 
own types and his own laws, he will then learn for what 
purpose God has stirred up the nation to act as it has done, 
and all hands will feel better. The captivity of the Israel 
ofShem, by Antiochas Epiphines, for three years and a half 
after the second building of the temple, was a double sym- 
bol of the captivity of gospel Israel. This captivity sj^m- 
'bolized the forty-two months, that gospel Israel was in cap- 
tivity to "mystical Babylon," in Europe, and counts a day 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 95 

Tor a year, or twelve hundred and sixty years. The captivi- 
ty of gospel Israel in the land of Japheth's enlargement is 
for forty-two months or twelve hundred and sixtj^ days, or 
for three days and a half. In the first as gospel the word 
or laws of God were in captivity, and Luther found her 
chained to a block, and he and his coadjutors released her. 
The second captivity is for the component bodies as organ- 
ized under the teachings of that word. These are civil law 
and church law. They come each as the seventh with the 
heads of both out of the tribe of Judah, or from "'between 
his feet," by the most exact demonstration of truth the world 
lias ever seen. 

The question does not stop here. What says the law of 
Moses in reference to the jubilee, " Thou shalt number seven 
Sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years, and 
the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee 
forty and nine years." Then shalt thou cause the trumpet 
of thejubilee to sound throughout all your land, and you 
shall hallow the fiftieth year and every one shall return to 
his possession. The seven times seven heads of civil gov- 
ernments have brought up the jubilee when universal liber- 
ty is proclaimed throughout the land ; all in exact agree- 
ment with the types as set in literal Israel. 

Moses proceeds in this same connection to give further 
directions. After speaking of the children of Israel as God's 
servants: " Both thy bond-men and bond-maids shall be of 
the heathen round about you, and ye shall take them for an 
inheritance for you and your children forever." These 
bond-men, to the Israel of Shem that set the type, were the 
Canaanites, in the land of Canaan. In th<a anti-type given 
to Japheth, they were to be the "merchandise of Ethiopia;" 
in reference to Shem and Japheth they were to be the 
heathen round about you.. Shem and Japheth are Asia and 
Europe, and the heathen round about these was Ham or 
Africa — these Shem and Japheth shall inherit forever. Ham 
is to be a " hewer of wood and a drawer of water," accord- 
ing to the law of Joshua, " unto this day," or " according 
unto the last day." 

The sounding of the jubilee, at the end of the forty- 
nine heads of civil law, is the announcement to the world 
that the jubilee of God has come, in which his witnesses 
■shall put off their sack-cloth. It is to tell to the world that 
he is going to renew the broken tables that holds his 
laws, and that the '• rod of Moses is going to swallow up " &11 
the rods of the world's Egypt, and that he is going to "beat 
the sword into plough shears and pruning hooks, and that 
while Shem and Japheth are to teach Ham in spiritual mat- 



96 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

ters, they are to make him hold these plough shears and 
pruning hooks six days in seven, and they are to " circum-- 
cise him," as did Abra-Ham by making him conform to 
God's law of the flesh. 

It might be claimed, with a fair show of reason, that 
God has used Ham in the relation of a servant for a demon- 
strative purpose; first, as a type in Canaan to the Israel of 
Shem, and, secondly, as the anti-type to the Israel ofJaj)- 
heth in the land of his enlargement over Shem ; and having 
used him for this single purpose of knowing in what lands 
to look for the Israel to whom the laws were given, and the 
Israel in which they were fulfilled, the time for Ham to be 
used as a servant of tribute is up, and he must now go free. . 
As the question is one of great importance, it deserves to be 
considered in all its bearings We do not regret that Ariel, 
has written his little work on Ham, with all the injustice he 
has done him. Without the least respect to the plurality of 
God's creatures of man, in which they may have been one 
for every continent ; they are all made of one blood, and 
the subjects of the same laws, and are all in the image of 
God. This oneness is the unity to which they shall come in 
the "last days." This unity is the justification by faith in 
the son of God, and is a spiritual unity. There are no steps 
to this altar, while in a civil sense thev will all be the sub- 
jects of the laws of Moses. 

The six days to make the world are proj^hetic days of 
future things, and may have no respect to that which pre-- 
ceded in reference to the literal creation. They stand as. 
prophetic of that that was to be. This being a demonstra- 
ted truth, it remains among God's secret things, in reference • 
to how much respect they may have to the literal creation. 
These six days were God's measured times to give this world: 
to his son, or the laws of his son as the " second Adam ;" 
the same truth may apply to Shem. Ham and Jai^heth. 
These may have had a unity of origin, or they may have' 
had a plurality of origin ; yet whether the one or the other, 
whether the one was made in Europe and the other is Asia, 
and the other in Africa, the purpose of God is that they 
shall all come together in unity, because all are made in his - 
image. Science need not study to contradict the revealed 
word of God, for that is an impossibility ; science may 
study to learn man how to read that word correctly. God 
never leaves himself without a witness. Ham was used as 
the symbol of the man that would be found in Africa in 
"the last days." He is used in the same sense that " Eed 
Esau" was used to represent the American Indian. As for 
whether the one or the other was in literal fact the literal 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 97 

projenitor of the other, are matters of idle speculation. 
Isaac is "The Christ,"' that is, he stands to represent "the 
Christ ;" he is used in the same sense that Ham is vsed to 
represent Africa. Man would act with the same reason that 
would go and dig up the grave of Isaac and look for the 
wound in his side and the nails in his hands, as to go to the 
Mummies of Egypt and look for the forms and moulds and 
hairs of the present Ham, in the literal descendants of the 
first man, Ham. A ^^rophetic action of a future event need 
be no more a literal fact than the parables of the New Tes- 
tament are literal facts. AYhen God could swear by no 
other he sware by himself. When there is no predicate, God 
makes a predicate. If a father had two sons, an " elder and 
a younger," God is that father. The Israel's of law and gos- 
pel, are the two sons. In this parabolic sense, the characters 
of Genesis, who preceded Moses, may stand for assumed 
characters to rejDresent things to be, or they may have been 
literal characters. That all that is said of them is not literal, 
is a truth. How much is literal and how much is assumed, 
is among God's secret things, and are not a matter of prac- 
tical concern with this generation. That which concerns 
men now is, are tho literal facts in these "last days," such 
as God sa'd they would be in, in the "last days." If Ham 
in the " last days " was to be released from being a "servant 
of tribute," Jacob makes tio mention of it in blessing the 
tribe of Issachar, but confirms itfor thelast days, "He bowed 
his shoulder to bear, and became a servant of tribute." This 
would indicate that the time for this service to begin had 
just began. If God has kept Ham for a demonstrative 
purpose only, u2:)on the same reasoning all the principles of 
laws, taught by all these tribes, may have been brought for- 
ward for a demonstrative purpose. Every tribe of Eachel's 
teaching is a tribe of perpetuity. Once, only, is Jacob the 
husband of Leah ; Jacob is the " Holy Ghost." This is at 
the tribe of Isaac-er, the servant of tribute. All the other 
tribes of Leah, exce^Dt Judah, that gives the national name 
are demonstrative tribes, and that for which they have been 
used as the ceremonial law, and forcible law, and the law of 
division and equilibrium, &c., will pass away. Not so with 
the teaching of the tribe of Isaac-er. He is a tribe of per- 
petuity. "Would God require six thousand years to demon- 
strate the meaning of his laws, that make the " tree of 
knowledge," and then desert them after having thus de- 
monstrated their sense ? Would God make Eachel bring 
forth Joseph as the church, and select that sect from 
among the seven as the bride, that places the greatest 
stress upon the doctrine for the soul, " Ye must be born 



98 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

again," and which makes that paramount to any outward 
law, and then desert his own demonstrated truth? Will 
God take the tribe of Benjamin, standing for the law of 
Moses, and after demonstrating that, as his law, cease to use 
it for the purpose had in view, all the while the demonstra- 
tion has been going on? If Dan, as the tribe of Eachel, 
teaches, "the voice of the people in their tribe capacity is 
the voice of God," will it cease to be the law after the de- 
monstration is finished ? If the tribe of Isaac-er is given 
to represent Ham, begotten, not by the will of the flesh, but 
^by "the Holy Ghost," and in spite of the law of the flesh, 
will the service end after the truth is demonstrated? If two 
hundred years with Ham, in his normal relation, as a ser- 
vant, has raised him so far above the beast in this Israel, as 
to set up the claim of his equality with Japheth, how many 
years would it require of Shem and Japheth, to take the 
whole of Ham from his native land, and elevate him to his 
normal position as an immortal being possessed of a soul, 
and subject to the laws of God ? Can Ham ever learn these 
great truths in his native land? All nations of Shem and 
Japheth, excel all others in some respects of either art or 
science. In what does Ham excel? In the very same in 
Avhich he excelled in the second test with his ftither Noah, 
in stupidity and ignorance. "The latter days," finds him 
the world's ass, just as Jacob said of him at the first — he is 
not a white ass, but a black ass. 

When Deborah sings of Israel's victory, she says, 
"Speak ye that ride on white asses, (white servants,) ye that 
sit in judgment, and walk by the way." Eespectishere had 
to those who would enslave their own brethren and make 
them servants of tribute, instead of Ham. Deborah is to 
igospel, or David, as Miriam is to Moses, or law. The song of 
Deborah is for gospel Israel given to Japheth. Deborah, as 
gospel, was the nurse of Eebecca, the church of the gospel. 
'That the world is again put on test is the truth. What then 
is the nature of this test ? Is it to see whether Adam and 
Eve will bring forth the Nahash, or the "sons of God, as 
Cain and Seth," to overcome the Nahash, at first begotten ? 
Th's is not the test. Is it to see which of Noah's sons will 
follow the " Nahash," as Ham, and which God will choose 
to overcome him, as Shem and Japheth? This is not the 
nature of the test. Is it ao-ain to bring forth a written law 
as that which was brought forth at the close of the law given 
to Shem, when the laws met on the person of "the Christ?" 
Is it to bring forth the nation of civil law, as the United 
States, which came at the close of law given to Japheth, in 
Europe, or the seven churches, that also came from Europe, 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 99 

nas the bride to the husband ? This is not it. What then is 
the object of the test ? It is to show what is meant by civil 
law, as taught in the book, that came at the close of Shem, 

: and also what is meant by soul law as taught in the same book. 
All outside of these are the -'Nahash," or they are Ham- 
men, because they follow the laws of nature, as did Ham. 
Who makes the selection ? God himself makes it. Is one 
party to be praised or blamed more than the other in the 
selection ? No more than was Saul of Tarsus, when he was 
a persecutor of God's people. Do these facts have anything 
to do in reference to the salvation of the parties in heaven ? 
Not a word of it. They are chosen as God's demonstrative 
parties, which sit in judgment upon action in this life. The 
future life is tried upon motives. God has granted to none 
the right to sit in judgment upon his fellows in reference to 
the future life. A moral inability to keep the law rests upon 
all men, until God demonstrates its meaning. " God is not 
n hard master." " He remembfreth we are dust." Men 
will fight, and kill, and steal, and think they are doing God 
service, until God teaches his own meaning to these prohibi- 
tions. All Ham men are those who follow the law of nature, as 
did Ham. God himself aesignates the heads of these in this 
land. They are Abra-IIam and Ham-lin. Those who repre- 

: sent the civil law, as at first set up, are Jefferson and A. 
Hambleton Stevens, as the corresponding opposites to the 
Ham-man. Is this done out of spite to his creatures? No ; 
it is for their instruction and enlightenment. A knowledge 
of this truth to this Ham-man may lead him to build his 
gallows higher and increase the bonds of Israel — no mat- 
ter. He cannot bind the word of God, norcan he go beyond 
God's prescribed limits; "No power can be given him ex- 
cept it were from above." The king will open the book at 
the right time and inquire for the conspirators to take his 
life. The word of the king is the life of the king. His 
honor is pledged that it shall not fail. If Joseph has his 
feet in fetters, it does not matter, or if Daniel is in the den, 
the king will be there, or if Herod beheads John, it is be- 
cause h'S work is done. God set the types and he will see that 
they are every one fulfilled. This is his own method to lift 
the scales from the eyes of " Saul of Tarsus." The world is 
fightinsc the battle of Ham-man-gog, standing to 02:>pose the 
laws of God. — See Ezekiel 39th chap. 

We take leave of the tribe of Issachar, the servant of 
tribute, and shall find what God requires of Judah concern- 
ing him, when he sums up the tribes. In the blessing of 
Moses upon this tribe, he unites him with Zebulon, which 
will be considered in connection with Zebulon. 



100 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

At the birth of the tribe of Zebulon, Leah said, " Kow""^ 
will my husband dwell with me because I have born him 
six sons." It was at the birth of the tribe of Zebulon that 
Leah took possession of the civil government, as the hus- 
band. The tribe of Zebnlon in this land is Florida. This 
tribe came in Israel in the year 1821. This was the year 
in which this land, as the Israel of law, divided the husband 
as the civil government. The tribe of Benjamin, or Texas, 
was cast out at the same time that Leah took possession of 
the husband. Benjamin was given in exchange for Florida, 
in the negotiations with Spain for Florida. As the law of 
unity in Israel, for which Benjamin stood, was cast out by 
the division of Israel, so moves the tribe of Benjamin. As 
Leah had brought forth the Israel of law, closing with the 
tribe of Judah, so she had to bring forth the nation of Judah, 
in which all the tribes were to be located. This act of Leah 
in taking the husband, was that Israel might journey forty 
years in the wilderness for the second settlement of Israel, 
the"same as Israel had journeyed forty years from the tribe 
of Judah for the first settlement. The act which gave Leah 
the husband was in violation of the law upon which Israel 
had been set up. Both Eeuben and Simeon, or Yirginia,. 
and Plymouth, had said the law of Israel was " States 
rights," and that "Governments were by consent of the 
governed." Neither of these were respected in the act of 
bringing Zebulon. The law was doubly violated in that 
the inhabitants of Zebulon were not consulted in respect to 
whether they would become a tribe in Israel, nor was Ben- 
jamin consulted in respect to whether he would be ex- 
changed for Zebulon. God intended by this act to show 
to Israel that while his law is that of " States rights," it is 
not by the " consent of the governed." 

Israel may consent to choose a king, or any other law, 
than that of God, and it will always be under God's " solemn 
protest." This doctrine, in this Israel, has reversed the 
order of God, and instead of holding "Ham as a servant of 
tribute," it has made Japheth to become the servant of 
tribute. It is only Simeon making Eeuben drink the dregs 
of his own folly, in this land of Japheth's enlargement, the 
same that Simeon in Eome has done to Eeuben, as the Israel 
of law from vShem. For forty and two months, or 1260 
years, has Simeon, as the second son, joined with Levi^ 
made Eeuben, as the firstborn, or Israel of law, pay bitterly 
for teaching the doctrine that " governments are by con- 
sent." For forty and two months, or 1260 days in this 
Japhetic Israel, will Simeon, as the second son, or Plymouth, 
in connection with Levi, as the church, make Eeuben asth« 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 101 

£rst, or "Virginia, pay dearly for teaching the doctrine that 
"governments are by the consent of the governed. When 
• God has used Simeon as the second son, whether in the 
person of the Pope of Eome, in whom the gospel of Judah 
was changed to the " man of sin," or, as the Puritan Crom- 
well, thao made the second foot of Judah to represent 
Simeon, or whether as the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
the North of this Japhetic Israel, that dates from gospel 
Judah, his ministers of vengeance to drive his elect Israel to 
demonstrate his truth ; the agent thus used will become as 
Babylon, both in reference to " mystical Babylon," and the 
Virgin daughter of Babylon." 

The taking of the husband by Leah at the coming of 
Zebulon was the announcement made, that Israel had began 
the second journey in the wilderness. This was at the com- 
ing of the half tribe Ephraim in 1821, which was the first 
tribe of Israel to cross over the Jordan. As Manassah, or 
Kentucky, was the first to come to the original, or first 
Israel, so the other son of Joseph, as Ephraim, b*egins the 
second journey for the second half If seventy years be de- 
termined upon Israel from the first, as Manassah, or from 
1791 to 1861, it counts forty years from the second, or from 
1821 to 1861. It is Leah that divides Israel. Eachel never 
divides. Leah divides to demonstrate what Eachel teaches. 
When it is finished, Eachel will take the world. Leah divided 
Israel at the coming of Zebulon, in 1821. In blessing Zebu- 
lon, Jacob said, "Zebulon shall dwell at the haven of the 
sea, and shall be an haven for ships, and his border shall be 
unto Zidon." This is the only tribe in Israel that every 
part of which borders the sea, and he represents the com- 
merce of the Japhetic Israel ; and as he is the chosen tribe 
to represent the whole of that commerce, his border shall be 
to the Northern extremit}^ of Israel, as was the literal 
Zidon. This account, perhaps, is a thousand years older than 
Zidon. It is a prophecy belongingto the Japhetic Israel, 
yet resting upon the Israel of Shem for its typical character, 
though much older than Zidon in the land of Shem. When 
Moses came to bless the tribes, he united the two tribes, 
Zebulon and Issachar, saying, " Eejoice Zebulon, in thy 
going out, and Issachar in thy tents. They shall call the 
people unto the mountain, there shall they offer the sacrifices 
of righteousness, for they shall suck of the abundance of 
the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand." 

The two tribes of Simeon and Levi, united by 

Jacob, are given to show church and State union, so the 

two united by Moses in the land of Japheth's enlargement, 

.■are given to i)oint out both the civil law and soul law of God. 



102 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Forty years from the coming of Issachar, in 1803-4, and the^-- 
the church of gospel was cut off by the division of the Metho- 
dist church, in this land, in 1811:. Forty years from the tribe 
of Zebulon, in 1821, and the civil law was put up in Naph- 
tali, the place of Eachel's triumph. If to the difference or 
one hundred years, as the difference of the double times for 
cleansing the sanctuary, as 2300 years and 2100 years, Sab- 
batic days be added, it is equal to fourteen years ; if this 
fourteen be added to 1811, it is equal to 1858. This was the 
time that the church ordered all condemnation of slavery to 
be left out of the book of law. If two jubilee years be 
added to the one hundred, according to the law of Moses, 
it is two years, this would make 1860. It was the year fol- 
lowing this that " Eachel prevailed " in both civil law and 
soul law. These counts are from the heads that stand as 
moon and sun. Spain is the moon, Florida is Spain ; France- 
is the sun, Louisiana is France; England is the earth. This 
ended with Georgia, for the first count of forty years for* 
both law and gospel at Philadelphia 

The same law and the same sect for the church^ 
of gospel that were first set up at the end of forty 
years at Philadelphia from " the earth that conbines both 
gun and moon,"' are the same in the second settlement. As; 
in the literal Israel, the forerunner John, brought the Apos- 
tle Andrew, the first apostle, to Christ, that stood for the* 
apostles, as the seventh head for gospel, or the law of the 
soul; so at the end of 2300 years, for the first cleansing of 
the sanctuary, the Eev. John Wesley organized his church 
in London, upon the principle that "laymen were not to- 
take down the ark nor set it up." At the end of 2100 years 
for the second cleansing of the sanctuary, that church which 
"Wesley set up in this land, was the second time cleansed by 
bringing Andrew, in the person of the Eev. Bishop Andrew,, 
as the head of the seventh sect, or gospel church, out of the 
tribe of Judah, as the tribe that gave him birth, and also- 
out of the tribe of Levi, as he was a member of the South 
Carolina Conference, iu order to show the one was trans- 
ferred to the other, the same as Christ, in the person of 
Matthew, whose name was Levi, was transferred to the gos- 
pel in Judah. There is in these types and their fulfillment 
the most exact yet complicated arrangements of facts the 
world has ever known. Nothing but the God that made the 
world could have done it : "I go where no man's building 
is." He will allow no imposter to intrude upon his demon- 
stration of both the husband and the bride. 

" Eejoice Zebulon in thy going out." Zebulon is the 
only tribe that makes a horn in the sea in his going out,'" 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 103" 

and Issacliar in thy tents, and it might be added in thy 
coming in. If the one, as a horn, goes into the sea, the 
sea runs into the other, and as the labor of Issachar living 
in his tents, finds ingress and egress through Issachar, it is 
only an enlargement of the idea as at first expressed in ref- 
erence to the river that parted into four heads, in which one 
head as the Gihon " compassed the whole land of Ethiopia." 
These tribes shall call the people to the mountain," being 
the two of Leah, after she commenced bearing the seconds 
time, from which to date God's forms of civil and soul laws, 
the truth which they demonstrate will call the peoj^le to the^ 
mountain of the Lord's house, which are his laws and which 
are Jerusalem. " They shall gather treasures hid in the 
sand." The literal Moses killed an Egyptian and hid him in 
the sand. This act was symbolic of how the laws of God 
would kill every Egyptian law. Moses was gone after this, 
act for forty years, and returned with his wife Zipporah — so 
with the laws of God ; gone forty years from the coming of' 
the tribe of Zebulon, that law returns to national Judah, and 
it tells who the bride is to the husband, and explains the- 
symbol of the literal Moses in hiding the Egyptian in the 
sand. These are the only tribes that give meaning to the 
act of Moses. As moves the literal characters to set thfr 
types in Shera, so moves the laws for which the literal stands. 
in the Israel of Japheth. 

The six tribes of Leah and the four of the two maid 
servants, have now been considered. They have been con- 
sidered according to the order of their birth, and not the 
order of their blessing. What a pleasure it would have 
been to such a mind as the good and learned Dr. A. Clark, 
could he have looked upon these tribes in their physical 
locality, and found every perplexing question answered for 
him. He seemed troubled to know why the tribe of Issachar, 
which came before Zebulon in the order of birth, should be 
preceded by Zebulon in drawing his lot and receiving his 
l3lessing. The six of I^eah, all border the coast, and when 
Jacob begins with Reuben to bless, he takes them in the 
regular order of physical locality, stepping from Judah to 
Zebulon, and closing with Issachar. This arrangement places 
Zebulon before Issachar with his lot and blessing, though in 
point of fact Issachar, is before Zebulon. The same fact ap- 
plies to the foiir servants — Jacob begins with Dan, then Gad, 
then Asher, and ends with Naphtali, as the place of setting 
up the civil government. We cannot dwell here, and only 
aim to suggest to the reflective world what a treasure it has 
in the "Book of God" — the only book. How small a por- 
tion of the book is yet learned ! 



104 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

After these ten tribes were born, Eacliel prayed to God, 
and she says, " The Lord hath heard my petition," and she 
bear a son and called his name Joseph ; this is the child of 
prayer ; to him the birthright is given, and he has no in- 
heritance but a double portion. The double laws, for which 
Abraham stood, and which were confirmed in Isaac and in 
Jacob, were given to Joseph, and they closed in the two 
sons of Joseph. It is the bones of Joseph that have to be 
brought out of Egypt. Joseph is the same as David. If 
Joseph is the seventh type of Christ, David is the seventh 
son of Jesse. Joseph is the civil laAV of God, as given in 
the days of judges, and the soul law as given in the days of 
apostles. These make the birth-right of God. 

At the birth of Joseph, Jacob said, "Send me away to 
my country and to my place." In the Israel of Shem, Levi, 
as the church, had no inheritance. Levi was joined with 
Simeon in gospel Israel, given to Japheth. When Israel is 
sent away to his place in the land of Japlieth's enlargement, 
Levi stood for all the scattered churches. In this demonstra- 
tive Israel, when the birthright is given to Joseph, Levi has 
an inheritance. » 

The two tribes of Rachel, as Benjamin and Joseph, are 
the summaries of laws to the other ten tribes. These are 
" Moses and Christ." These laws of God are sent in mercy 
to the world to save it from wars and contentions, the same 
as Jeseph was sent to his brethren upon an errand of mercy. 
As the brethren of Joseph treated him badly, saying, "Shall 
this dreamer rule over us," so have the laws of God been 
treated badly in this world. Man has followed the laws of 
nature, saying, " Shall this dreamer rule over us." If the 
one says, " Thou shalt not kill," nor " Covert thy neighbors 
servant," man has found out a better way to serve God than 
by following his direction. If the other says, "Ye must be 
born again," man has found out some other way to climb 
up and follow the laws of nature, with saying, " How can 
these things be?" This Joseph, like the laws for which he 
stands, must prophecy in sackcloth and ashes his appointed 
time. As Joseph is the summary of both the civil law of 
Judah and the church, and the same characters in him fill up 
either in this land, we will leave him for the present, with 
remarking that he was sent away the second time to his 
people and country, in the year 1814, at the division of, the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in this land. At his birth, 
Rachel said, " The Lord shall add to me another son." This 
other son is Benjamin, and is Texas, of whom we have al- 
ready spoken somewhat, and will aim to be brief. At the 
' birth of Benjamin, Rachel died. Benjamia came in this land 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 105 

in 1845, and the word of God, for the government of Israel 
died. As the law of Benjamin retired from the I^orth and still 
prevailed in the South from the passage of the Missouri 
Compromise line, so the tribe of Benjamin moves in Israel. 
Eeuben and Simeon, J. Monroe and J. Q. Adams, cast out 
Benjamin and Eeuben, and Levi, or J. Tyler and J. C. Cal- 
houn, brought him back. Benjamin was the tribe that bad 
the cup in his sack. The steward said in respect to this 
€up, "This is it by which my Lord divineth," that is, the 
law of Moses is that by which G-od judgeth. Law, as Abra- 
ham, had gone through this land, from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific ocean, and closed under the last of the seven South- 
ern judges, as James K. Polk. The tribe of Benjamin, the 
son of Pachel, was allowed to gain his independence to 
show to Israel how a foreign nation should come to Israel. 
" Cast lots for him," is notonlvthe divine method in makino- 
:an apostle, but also in admitting a tribe to join Israel. 
These lots are to be cast as tribes holding the law of Moses, 
that is, if not legislating to make Ham a servant of tribute, 
they are forbid any impediment in rendering him back to his 
rightful owner The " \yilmot Proviso " of 1817, was the 
•death of Eachel, as the law of God. Then it was that 
•^'five kings served four twelve years, and in the thirteenth 
year they rebelled, and in the fourteenth they went to 
war, (as recorded in the book of Genesis,) and the four 
whipped the five." These kings are the world's four law- 
givers. The Israel of law, from Shem, said it was all Moses, 
and these represent Levi. The Israel of gospel, in Eome, 
said it was Simeon and Levi, united by the will of man. 
That the Pope held the ke5"s of Peter, pnd he could loose 
.tind bind, that is, it was all Judah or gospel. The Israel of 
law in this land of Japheth, said it was "Governments are 
by consent of the governed," and " Eeligion was free." Find- 
ing this would not answer they said, the thing needed was to 
divide Israel in both civil and soul laws. These four kings are 
•common to both wings of Israel — the South had one other 
king, and said, commerce or cotton was king. Five of these 
served four from 1817, twelve years, to 1859 ; in the thir- 
teenth year they rebelled," and Levi, or South Carolina, 
withdrew, and in the fourteenth year, or in 1861, they went 
to war. Abraham, or law, armed his own trained servants, 
born in his house, (318,) and brought back all the goods and 
victuals that had been captured by the four. (The number 
318 has respect to the whole electorial college in this 
land.) Three young men confederated with Abraham 
These are. Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The arm- 
ing of Ham, with the ballot, was contrary both to the law 



106 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

of Abraham and also of Judali, whom it will be seen "binds' 
his own foal to the vine," or civil law, with his asses colt to 
the choice vine, as Joseph the church. The restoration of law 
will show the illegality of the act of putting the ballot in the 
hands of the servant, and thus all things will be restored by 
using him as*the agent. The king of Sodom, one of the same 
kings that had been slain by the four, met Abraham coming- 
from the slaughter, which shows though the land be a very 
Sodom in wickedness, it is still the land of God's selection in 
which to demonstrate his laws toman. Let nonejiride them- 
selves upon their own goodness or righteousness, because God. 
as a sovereign act has chosen the land in which to set up his 
laws. Jacob said of Benjamin, "Benjamin shall ra\en as a 
wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and in the 
evening he shall divide the spoil." Moses said of Benja 
min, "The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him, 
and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall 
dwell between his shoulders." These blessings have respect 
both to the law of Moses, for which Benjamin stands, and 
the Israel of law to whom the law Avas given. " In the 
morning he shall raven as a wolf." Benjamin is one of the 
witnesses that turns water to blood as often as he will. Wars 
are the result of man's disobedience to the law of God for 
which Benjamin stands. The law may be driven about the 
same as the nation to whom it was given, yet in the even- 
ing; both shall be brouo;ht in. The Lord will take care of 
both, as both will be required to complete the " fullness of 
the Gentiles." These, as Benjamin, are the burning bush 
of Moses — forever burning, yet never destroyed. Benja- 
min dwells between the shoulders, in the same sense that 
the law-giver comes from between the feet of Judah. While 
Reuben says, " If I bring not Benjamin, slay my two sons." 
It is national Judah that says, "Take me and put me in 
prison for the sake of Benjamin." Unless God had taken 
this nation of Judah and imprisoned him and brought him 
along at every step, just as he has, it was not possible for 
men by human wisdom to understand those symbols fbr- 
which they stand. While the tragedy is a terrible one, and 
the heart-rending anguish is indescribable, yet the happy re- 
sults to grow therefrom, will through a thousand years of 
peace and quiet, more than recompense for all this suffering.. 
These judgments fall with terrible Aveight upon the genera- 
tions whom God selects to enlighten the world. Yet God is 
good, and he commands sun and moon to "stand still," and 
thus he suspends the rigid exactions of his own laws, and* 
in the end it may be that none shall claim advantage over* 
the others. 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 107 

Each tribe in Israel demands a separate chapter, to b©^ 
considered in the full sense of that they are given to teach. 
We leave Benjamin to see what is taught by the two half 
tribes of Joseph as ^'Manassah and Ephraim," or Ken- 
tucky and Missouri. These are half tribes because they 
divide between civil law and soul law. Their mother was 
an Egyptian woman, and the laws for which they stand are 
what God has brought out of the dragon of the world's 
Egypt, or the Beast of Babylon. They stand to represent 
the double portion given to Joseph. If Manassah is law^ 
Ephraim is both law and gospel. The dream of Joseph had 
respect to the division of this Japhetic Israel in both a 
civil and gospel sense. " The first is last, and the last is first."* 
Joseph dreamed that the sheaf of his brethren bowed to 
his sheaf This is political, and stands for the eleven tribes 
that bowed to him in the Southern Confederacy. He dreamed 
again, and the "eleven stars, sun and moon bowed to him." 
Thia is the division of the church of gospel, when not only 
the eleven but the two, as Manassah and Ephraim, standing 
as " sun and moon," bowed down to Josej^h. Jacob inter- 
preted this dream to Joseph, will " I and your mother, and 
your brethren bow down to you?" "I and your mother" 
stand as sun and moon ; she is the moon that holds the 
written law, and I am the sun as " God the Holy Ghost," to 
give the spirit to the law. 

This dream was never literally fulfilled in literal Israel; 
Eachel never went down to Joseph in Egypt, hence she 
never "bowed to him." Jacob tells the sense when he 
comes to bless the sons of Joseph, " Let my name and the 
names of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, rest upon the 
lads." As these heads of laws stood for " sun and moon," so 
the half tribes of Joseph would stand for "sun and moon." 
The moon is law, the sun is gospel. Jacob said, " These are 
mine, as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine." "The 
issue that those begettest after these shall be them." Reuben 
and Simeon have stood for laws in all of the history of 
Israel. Thus it is with the two sons of Joseph; they are 
" sun and moon," or law and gospel. The first born of Joseph 
was Manassah, and is the half tribe of Kentucky ; the second 
is Ephraim, and is Missouri. At the birth of Manassah, 
Joseph said, " The Lord hath made me forget all my toil, 
and all of my father's house." At the birth of Ephraim, 
Joseph said, " The Lord hath caused me to be fruitful in the 
land of my affliction." 

The half tribe Manassah was on the East of the Jordan,, 
in the Israel of Shem, and Ephraim was on the West, as in. 
the Israel of Japheth, yet the order of the other tribes is re-- 



108 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

versed. The joiirneyings of God's Israel will find no rest 
until it reaches the symbols of the two half tribes of Joseph, 
as moon and sun, or law and gospel. The brethren of Joseph 
standing for human kings, in opposition to the laws of God, 
as the king returned to Jacob with the coat of many colors, 
all stained with blood, and Jacob mourned for him as dead. 
These were symbols of " the Christ," uj^on whom the laws 
of God met, and also of the nation of the Christ, in 
which the same laws were to meet. If Joseph was p it in 
prison, the Christ was laid*in the sej^ulchre of Joseph, stand- 
ing for his prison, and the nation taking the laws is in 
j)rison. If a guard over him in the one case was required, 
so is the other. If the tribe of Manassah, representing the 
first half of Israel, in this land of Japheth, is law, as the first 
tribes to come to the original tribes, so is the half tribe 
Ephraim the first tribe to represent the second half of Israel, 
across the Jordan, and he stands for both law and gospel. If 
the rebuilding of Jerusalem counts seventy years for the 
captivity from Manassah to 1861, or from 1791 to 1861, it 
counts forty years for Israel to journey in the wilderness 
from Ephraim, or from 1821 to '1861. These are half tribes, 
whether the count is from East to West, or from North to 
South. The half tribe to divide Israel is Manassah; the 
half tribe to unite Israel is Ej^hraim. If the two kings to 
divide Israel, as Saul and David, or Abraham Lincoln and 
.Jefferson Davis, were both born in Manassah, it is the same 
tribe to which the church goes to complete its division in 
Louisville in 1845. All the tribes of Israel, like the apostles, 
move by pairs as half tribes. Two are law-givers, as Levi 
and Judah ; two show the laws departures, as Eeuben and 
Simeon ; two are given as the flying wings of the cherubim, 
these are Issachar and Zebulon, the four as servants, are two 
of Eachel and two of Leah ; two are summaries of law, as 
Joseph and Benjamin ; two are given to show the place of 
Israel's rest, as Manassah and Ephraim. Ephraim is the tribe 
to bring the world back to the starting point; in him dwrlt 
the first Adam that lost a world ; in him will go the 
world's Eome, to claim the world by the second Adam ; Cain 
cast out built a city that divided Israel — this was Constan- 
tine and Constantinojole. Fourteen generations from this 
time, and the law of Cain was restored in Lamech. The 
city builded was in honor of the first judge, as Washington, 
and Washington City. Fourteen generations from this first 
judge finds Israel in captivity with the law-giver from "be- 
tween the feet of Judah." This law-giver bears the name 
of the second Southern judge of the Southern wing of 
-Israel, that stands for the second half of Israel beyond the 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 109^ 

Jordan ; his name is Jefferson. It is said of Manassah that 
he shall represent his thousands, while of Ej^hraim, he shall 
rejoresent his "ten thousands," and shall become " muHi- 
tudes of nations." These facts would seem to indicate that 
the name of the city in Ephraim, bearing the names both 
of the judge of the second half of Israel, and also the law- 
giver from "between the feet of Judah," was God's chosen 
place for the world's Eome. "VYe would not speculate in 
these thoughts, but write suggestively. Do you understand ? 

While from the half tribe, Manassah, the laws must 
count that build Jerusalem, it is into the half tribe, Ephraim, 
that the seat of the laws thus demonstrated, will be located. 
These laws will heal the nations, as the leaves of the trees 
that grow upon either bank of the river. They stand as 
the literal demonstrated book of God, as body and soul civil 
law, and soul law. Old and New Testament, Moses and 
Christ, Levi and Judah, Benjamin and Joseph, Manassah 
and Ephraim, the civil government of the Southern Con- 
federacy, and the church government of the Methodist. 
Episcopal Church, South. 

Does the reader say, " I can't believe it !" God's types 
all say you would not. You were not to know it. The 
Queen Esther, that Ahasuerus selected, was the only one 
under trial that followed the exact directions of the king's 
steward; hence she was the one chosen as the bride to the 
king. The laws of God are the king. These laws are so 
interpreted by the types and God's fulfillment, in the histo- 
ry given of their exposition, God has determined you shall 
believe before it is done. " The watchmen shall come to see 
eye to eye." 

The half tribe of Manassah is law, and stands to 
Ephraim, in this demonstrated Israel, as Benjamin to Judah; 
the laws for which these stand are Jerusalem. The seventy 
weeks of Daniel to the coming of the prince, upon whom 
the laws met, are in this land seventy years. Seven weeks 
are seven times, or seven years, as the seyen times seven 
heads of civil law, are seven times, or simply seven years, 
as in the case of Nebuchadnezzar. A week is a time, but a 
time is a year, it follows from hence that a week is a year* 
In reference to these measures, it depends upon what sym- 
bol is followed. A month is also a year in this land of the 
literal. The seven months that the Ark of Noah was float- 
ing upon the waters, are the same in value as the " seven 
times that passed over Nebuchadnezzar." 

This seven times were only seven years, and covered 
both ends of the indignation, the last end was for forty-two 
months. In this land of the literal, both ends are for eighty- 



ilO THE MYSTERY FINISHEC. 

€our years, or from 1776 to 1860-1. All the former symbols 
«of Israel, which have been given by the movements and 
fCycles of the celestial heavens, are in this governed by the 
^cycles of the literal earth and sun ; seventy weeks are 
rseventy years. 

With this exj)lanation,letus read the prophecy of Daniel 
.concerning the rebuilding of Jerusalem, that is the laws 
'for which Jerusalem stood, which in the person of Messiah, 
'became the substitutes for the literal house. " Seventy 
-years are determined upon thy people," and upon the laws 
-•for which Jerusalem stood as the holy city. The bringing in 
of these laws will finish the transgression in a national sense, 
and make an end of sins, and will make reconciliation for 
•Inii^uity, and will bring in the laws of God, as the everlast- 
ing righteousness, and unseal the vision and prophecy, and 
,annoint the Most Holy. 

Know therefore and understand that from the going 
forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem, 
unto the coming of the laws of the Prince, there shall be 

■ seven years, and three score years, and two years. The laws of 
.Jerusalem come will together again in times of great trouble 
-and after three score and two years, the component bodies 
.that are chosen to represent the same laws, that met on 

Messiah, shall be cut off, but not for their own transgres- 
: sions, and the people of the invading prince shall destroy 

■ the laws that make Jerusalem and the sanj'tuary, and deso- 
lations are determined upon to the end of the week, or seven 

>years, which Jacob will serve to get Rachel. And the inva- 
ding prince shall confirm the covenant with many for one 
vweek, or seven years, and in the midst of the week he shall 
-cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, by putting up a 
' human God in the stead of the laws of God, and to the end 
o of' the wardesolations are determined upon. 

The reading of this mysterious prophecy in Daniel has 
been praphrased to make it conform to the literal facts in 
the Japhetic Israel given to "unseal the book." This 
prophecy is given to show the double signification to be ap- 
plied to Jerusalem. Seventy weeks are required to overthrow 
the literal Jerusalem, and to substitute the laws that met 
upon the literal house, upon the person of the Messiah, that 
became the substitute of the literal house. This prophecy 
had respect to the literal Israel as a type, but to the Japhetic 
Israel in a more particular and exact sense. We have never 
seen any expositor that could make the prophecy apply in 
all its parts to the literal coming of Christ, and the literal 
overthrow of Jerusalem. Two things are to be done at one 
.and the same time — Jerusalem is to be overthrown, and yet 



TitE Mystery PiNisSEB. ill 

in the overthrow the transgression is to be finislied. and an 
€nd of sins is to come, &c. The laws for which Jerusalem 
stood are Benjamin and Judah, or Joseph. These are Moses 
and Christ, or civil law and soul law. When these unite, 
according to the types, there is an end of sin, and transgres- 
sions are finished. As these united on "the Christ," so are 
they to unite in the nation given to Japheth, that was to 
l3ring forth the fruits of the kingdom. If, after they unite, 
they are not overthrown by the invading prince, the 
prophecy is not fulfilled. If the invading prince does not 
confirm the covenant for one week that existed between 
Benjamin as law, and Judah as gospel, for one week or seven 
years, the prophecy is not fulfilled. If, in the midst of that 
week, the laws that represent Jerusalem, or the Messiah, are 
not cut off, the prophecy is not fulfilled. Let us now look 
at a few of the leading particulars as they apply to the lit- 
eral facts of this Japhetic Israel, substituting one single 
form of civil law of the seven in the history of Israel, and 
•one church as the soul law of the seven, for the bride to the 
husband, as soul to body, are gospel to law. As in the first 
setling of Israel, forty years from the tribe of Judah, the 
civil and church blend together as body and soul, so they 
must blend together in reading this prophecy. The half 
tribe Manassah stands in this Israel as law, and it is the 
Ifirst tribe that came to the original twelve, and is the proper 
tribe to date the rebuilding of the gospel Jerusalem from. 
"Seventy years are determined upon thy people" from the 
-coming of the halftribe Manassah, or Kentucky, as the tribe 
from which to date the rebuilding of Jerusalem. This tribe 
came in the year 1791, seventy years extends to 1861. The 
order in which this decree will be fulfilled, in settmgup both 
law and gospel, and in making them harmonize so that 
Abraham, as law, shall cease to disown Sarah, as gospel, is 
the following : 

From tlie gojng forth of the decree, for seventy years, 
as the extreme measures, there shall be seven years to the 
time when Manassah shall interpret the law for the body, or 
in the year 1798, he will, by his resolutions, give the inter- 
pretation to the civil law that is to build Jerusalem. Three 
score years from that date, and the church, as the bride, will 
conform to this civil law of Manassah by blotting out all 
•condemnation of slave-holding. This will be in the yeac 
1858, and is intended to give Moses his Ethiopian bride. 
Two years from this time, and the two as civil and soul laws 
will agree together as -sixty-nine years, and the year follow- 
ing will complete the seventy that is to overthrow the j^eo- 
pie that have thus rebuilt Jerusalem between Benjamin and 



112 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Judah. This imion of the laws, that build Jerusalem, was 
necessary to annoint David, in his double character, the second 
time, by Judah alone, as the heads of these laws are both 
out of the tribe of Judah, in national Judah, the same as 
the " Christ," upon whom they met, w^as out of Judah. This 
annointingof David, by Judah alone, made it necessary for 
national Judah to separate from national Benjamin, or David 
from Saul, and in the separation the covenant of union was 
broken, and the invading jn-ince from Benjamin will rein- 
state for one week or seven years, in the midst of which the 
laws that make Jerusalem, or David, as G-od's two witnesses,, 
will be dead three and one half years. Yet as God intends 
no separation between Benjamin and Judah, but that Judah 
shall rule the whole land, this death, or this imprisonment 
of Judah, is necessary in order that he may bring, not only 
the law of Benjamin, but also the nation of Benjamin in 
the Israel of Japheth, the same as he did in the Israel of 
Shem, when the tribe of Benjamin rebelled against the laws 
of Israel. As in the first case, Judah exterminated all the 
tribe of Benjamin, excej^t six hundred men and four hundred 
w^omen, so in the second he will exterminate every thing- 
out of Benjamin, except the ten commandments of the law 
of Moses, for which he stands expressed by six and four. 

There is no part of this proj^hecy but what will find it&. 
easy and natural interpretation by following each symbol,, 
and giving them their proper places in the interpretation. 
The civil law, as the husband and the church law, as the- 
soul, are blended together at every point, and held the same- 
relation as body and soul. The protest of God against the 
division of the Israel of Shem, which was occasioned by a 
dei^arture from his form of civil law, as given in the seventh 
head as judges, was aprotest not only against Israel's depar- 
ture from the law of Moses for the body, but also against 
the law of Levi, or Moses, for the soul. The departure in 
the one case led to the departure in the other. It was the 
cause that led Jeroboam to substitute the " golden heifers " 
of Samaria for the laws of God, as Jerusalem. The protest 
of the seventh judge, in this Israel, as Andrew Jackson,, 
born of Levi, as Moses, and whose name as Andrew, was- 
given to show that the Israel of both law and gospel, or 
national Judah, had been separated from national Benjamin, 
was the protest of God; like the permit in the division 
of literal Israel, which set the types, it was for a specific 
purpose, which, when fulfilled, the protest was to beremoved. 
The same facts apply to the church, in its protest, by the 
half tribe Manassah, in reference to a division of the gosj^el, 
or seventh church. This j)rotest was the work of the Eev. 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. Il3 

H. B. Bascomb, of Manassab, and is virtually the protest of 
God, for this Japhetic Israel, according to types set in Sheni. 

These protests, coming from the tribes they do, which 
tribes, as law-givers, have the same symbolic sense, arc notes 
of attention, that Grod is only moving forward to demon- 
strate his laws, and then when that is finished, the whole 
shall be reunited upon the laws thus demonstrated. The 
same facts in either case apply to the civil heads, or 
churches heads. If the Eev. John Wesley, who stands as 
the forerunner of the gospel church, adopts the language 
of the literal John, in reference to the gospel church, •' He 
that cometh a^ter me, is preferred before me," foi* he was 
before "me," and he stands represented in his first Apostle, 
Andrew, the same facts apply to the church of John 
Wesley, in its relation to the church, headed by Bishop An- 
drew, as the head of the seventh church, tbat agrees with 
the Apostle Andrew. This truth applies alike to the seventh 
judge as Andrew Jackson, born of Levi. John Quincy 
Adams might say in truth, according to history, "He that 
cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before 
me." That Jackson was the choice of the people of this 
land, as judge, before John Adams, is the truth, and that he 
came in after him, is also true. This question does not stop 
here, nor can we give more than a tithe of that mountain 
weight of testimony, which God gives of his demonstrated 
truth. The leading agents, or forerunners, to make the law 
in this Japhetic Israel, were Thos. Jefferson and Alexander 
Hambleton. The heads of laws that come from gospel 
Judah, represent the same in this Irsael, As the characters 
of the ISTew Testament are the same as those of the old, so the 
same characters of the first, or Israel of law, in this Israel 
of Japheth are the same as those of the second, or Israel of 
both law and gospel. 

The first Israel is not only law, but as law it types the 
second, as both law and gospel. The first bishop of the 
church of gospel, in this land, was "Francis Asbury." He 
stood as the forerunner of Bishop Andrew. 

In order to make this truth palpable to the minds of 
men, the forerunner at the trial of Bishop Andrew, to pre- 
pare the way for him, was "Francis A. Harding." We need 
not dwell upon facts so palpable, that such as would dispute 
them might also dispute that three angles of a triangle were 
not equal to two right angles, or that two and two Avere not 
four. The God that made man and that made the world has 
determined that his intelligent creature man shall know 
that he rules in the affairs of men, and that he means to rule 
by his own laws. 



114 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

The two half tribes, as sons of Joseph, are the pivot 
around which this Israel of Japheth revolves, and they are 
given to hold it both to unity and instruct it in the laws of 
God. That which Grod intends to make great always jars 
heavy at its birth. The world's center is in Ephraim, of 
whom [he is to represent "multitudes of nations." This 
tribe stood for ten kingdoms in the second half of Isreal, or 
in the second half, as in Eome, which was broken into ten 
kingdoms in "West Eome; or he stands for the ten old States 
in the North of the United States. These are Ephraim 
''joined to idols." The half tribe Ephraim, as Missouri, will 
find "room and give rest and prosperity to the world, when 
in him Judah and Ephraim appoints them one head," and 
.that head is Moses for the body, and Christ for the soul. 
With these general remarks we take leave of the two half 
tribes, Manassah and Ephraim. 

Judah and Joseph remain to be considered. If to Joseph 
the birthright belongs, Judah is the law-giver. At the birth 
of Judah, Leah said, "Now will I praise the Lord, and Leah 
left bearing." Jacob said of Judah, "Thou art he whom 
thy brethren shall praise ; thy fathers shall bow down be- 
fore thee." " Judah is a lion's whelp, from the prey my 
son thou art gone up ; he stooped down, he crouched as a 
lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up?" "The 
sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from 
between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the 
gathering of the people be." "Binding his foal unto the 
vine, and his ass' colt unto the choice vine ; he washed his 
garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes." 
" His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with 
milk." 

Moses said of Judah, "Let his hands be sufficient for 
him, and be thou a help to him from his enemies." As in the 
Israel of Shem, several tribes had their literal portion in the 
tribe of Judah, so in the Israel of Japheth, all the tribes are 
represented by national Judah, and he is the summary of all 
the laws for which they stand. The stone of Bohan, the 
son of Eeuben, in the Israel of Shem, set the northern 
boundary of Judah. Bohan is the one son of Eeuben, and 
is given to represent the one half of Eeuben. In the Israel 
of Shem, Eeuben had five sons, or one standing for the whole. 
In the Israel of Japheth, Eeuben has five sons, or one son 
standing for the whole. The five States are, Ohio, Indiana, 
Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, are the five that cam.e of 
Eeuben. These five are summed up by the one as Bohan, or 
Kentuck}^ that sets the stone of Bohan " as the northern 
"boundary of Judah. This tribe of Bohan, or Kentucky, as a 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 115 

half tribe, holds the same relation to Eeuben, the first born 
son of Leah, as to Joseph, the first born of Eachel ; he is a 
half tribe in either case. With the one half as Benjamin, 
Eeuben defiled the law of God by the ordinance of 1787, 
-while, with the other half, as Judah, he is "the strength of 
might and the excellency of dignity and ]30wer." AYith the 
one-half, Reuben said, "States Eights," with the other he 
said consolidation, upon the principle that "governments are 
by the consent of the governed," without respect to the laws 
•of God for the civil law of man. The two kings to divide 
Israel, as Saul and David, or Abraham Lincoln or Jeff'erson 
Davis, were each born in the tribe of Bohan, or Manassah, 
or Kentucky, and the one came from between the feet of 
the tribe of Judah, in national Judah, and the other from 
between the tribes with which Eeuben defiled himself, in 
national Benjamin, This Benjamin, or Saul, said in the 
Israel of Shem that he was the " Lord's annointed," and 
that David should not come to the throne, in the Israel of 
Shem and Saul, and Absalom, the son of David, kept David 
seven years and a half from coming to the throne. David 
standsfor God's own laws, and is no individual man ; jet, as 
individuals were given to seal the laws, so they are given to 
tell which way the laws of God move in the Japhetic 
Israel. "Gods great host came to David " at the expira- 
tion of the seven years, that he was driven into a South land, 
in the Israel of Shem, as the type of the laws of God. It re- 
mains to be seen whether "the great host of God will come 
to the laws of David, in this Japhetic Israel. 

Of Judah it is said " Thy father's children shall bow 
down to thee." Whether this be ceremonial Eeuben, or for- 
cible Simeon, or the law-giver, as Levi, or Dan, as the prin- 
ciple of judging his own people, or Gad, as equilibrium ; or 
Asher, as division ; or Issachar, as the ass, or servant; or 
^ebulon, as the tribe to represent the making Shem and 
Japheth servants of tribute, in the stead of Ham, or Benja- 
min, as law. All shall bow down to Judah, out of whom 
came the Christ, upon whom the laws of God met, and out 
of whom, in this Japhetic Israel, the. heads of these laws 
have come again. The prophecy concerning Judah is a double 
prophecy. This prophecy has respect not only to the national 
Judah, but to the tribe of Judah in the national Judah. 
What was true in the Israel of Shem, is also true in the 
Israel of Japheth. 

The two tribes of Benjamin and Judah, in the Israel oi 
Shem, stood for as much as the whole twelve. While they 
were two, as the summaries of laws, the ten sons of the lit- 
eral Benjamin stand for the ten tribes. These are the ten 



IIG THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

commandments of the law of Moses as God's law to govern 
man. When they are corrupted by human laws, as in Jero- 
boam, or as the ten kingdoms of West Rome, they are called 
ten horns, and are " Ej^hraim joined to idols." The two 
tribes were in Babylon, and they symbolized the word or 
Avritten laws of God in '' mystical Babylon," while the ten 
horns, or kingdoms of Judah, in E,ome, existed as so many 
nations, or tribes. The law of Benjamin is unity. " Whoe^ er 
offendeth in one part is guilty of the whole because it is 
one law." These two tribes standing for all the tribes in the 
days of Israel's unity, were called Judah after Israel divi- 
ded. They stood as national Judah. In this national Judah, 
it was the tribe of Judah that gave the Christ ujDon whom 
the laws met, so in the Israel of Japheth, it must be the 
tribe of Judah, in national Judah, from whom the represen- 
tative heads of laws must come. Not only must the heads 
of laws come from the tribe of Judah in national Judah, but 
the scepter must depart from national Judah, at the coming 
of the head of gospel, as the " Shiloh out " of Judah, while 
at the coming of the civil head, the two as the rejDresenta- 
tives of the two witnesses of civil law and soul law, must be 
killed. In this respect the Israel of the land of Jaj^heth's 
enlargement must fill up the double ending of the Israel of 
Shem in Judah, and the Israel of gospel, in Europe, given to 
Japheth. The scepter departed from Judah at the coming 
of Shiloh, in the Israel of Shem, but their nationality did 
not at that time depart. In the middle of the week of sev- 
enty years, Messiah was cut off, but the nationality of Judah 
was not at that time overthrown. The Christ came between 
law and gospel, or Benjaminand Judah, as the feet of Judah, 
yet the nation of Judah was not overthrown till the destruc- 
tion of Jerusalem by Titus. The scepter left at the coming 
of the law of gospel, but the nation was not at that time 
overthrown. 

The laws which God will have to make David, or the 
kingdom, are the civil law as given in the seventh head as 
judges, of whom Joshua was first, and the seventh head as 
gospel, or the apostles, of whom Andrew was first. 

These are Levi and Judah, or Benjamin and Judah. In 
this land they are the seventh judge as Levi, or Andrew 
Jackson, born of Levi, and Bishop Andrew, the head of the 
seventh church, born of Judah. 

The feet of Judah, as gospel, given to Japheth, are ISTa- 
poleon Bonaparte and Cromwell of England. Each of these 
are the seventh to make the feet of Judah, as in Jaj^heth, or 
Eome. The scepter left Judah in the one foot by the Eound- 
heads under Cromwell, and by the tragedy of the Jacobins 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 117 

under Eobespeire and company, which brought forth Bona- 
parte that took the scepter in the other wingof Judah as his 
feet in the coming of the law given to Jiidah, in the land of 
Japheth's enlargement. The tribes to represent these seven 
heads twice counted in the land of Ja2:)heth, to set the gospel 
given to Judah are the Puritan or Plymouth, of the ex- 
treme Xorth, and the Orleans territory of the extreme 
South. Between these extremes as the feet of Judah, or 
gospel, given to Japheth in Europe, the nation of Benjamin 
and Judah, was set up. The law-giver had been, according 
to a regular line of descent, until the coming of these two 
seventh heads in Europe, to show that the scepter had depart- 
ed from Judah. If Cromwell seized the scepter in England, 
Bonaparte found it, in his own language, in a gutter upon the 
cont'nent of Europe, and he took it. This scepter of law, 
whether for civil or sotil, did not leave Judah as gospel in 
Home, and in England, till the rise of the two men afore- 
mentioned. ISTor did it leave this Judah till the coming of 
the lawgiver, as the United States, between these tragical 
endings. Nor did this nation arise as the law-giver, but 
between the extreme representatives of these tragical end- 
ings of JudaK in Rome, as the extreme North and South. 

As between these political extremes as "the feet of 
Judah for the Israel of law, so the feet for the gospel of 
-Judah, stood as Episcopal Euth and Presbj'terian Orpha. 
Elizabeth and Cromwell, make these feet of Judah, from be- 
tween which the church of John Weslev arose. If he was 
not the promised " Shiloh " as the head of the church, or 
the first apostle, Andrew, he is the forerunner to brirg An- 
drew. If he said " slavery was a great evil," it is Andrew 
who by divine appointment, will teach what Paul taught 
upon the subject, "Let servants count their own masters 
wo^;thy of all honor that the name of God be not blasphemed." 
Teach this as a truth, Timothy, till God in his seven times, 
to demonstrate truth, shows who is the only and "blessed 
pOc<intateand king," by the establishing his own laws for 
both soul and body as given by Christ and Moses. 

The tribe of Benjamin in this land moves not more exact 
with the law of the lard, than does the tribe of Judah in 
national Judah fill his prophetic part. Between these two 
tribes Jerusalem is built. "If Leah left bearing" at Judah, 
or Georgia, as the last of the first settlement, Rachel died at 
Benjamin, or Texas, as the last of the second settlement of 
the Israel of both law and gospel. 

Let us read the prophecy of Jacob concerning Judah 
-as the law-giver according to the fulfilled facts: 

The tribe of Judah, the law-giver, shall never have a 



118 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

civil head in Israel until Shiloh, as the head of gospel, or the' 
church, comes of him. The scepter will then depart from na- 
tional Judah,and the first civil law-giver, the tribe of Judah 
will have, will be the one from " between his literal feet " as- 
his literal twins, made up of the two territories he gave the 
nation. Bishop Andrew, who was born of the tribe of Judah, 
came as the head of gospel, in the year 1844-6. The scepter 
left nationalJudah in the year 1847, upon the passage ofthe 
" Wilmot Proviso," by the lower House of Congress ; then 
it was that the law of equal rights in Israel departed from 
Israel, and the eagle of America, like that of Pagan Eome, 
became the law-maker for Judah. That that was Israel, 
and who claimed to hold the covenants, persecuted the 
Shiloh that came of Judah and said, " Away with him, away 
with him." Clod will give us a king, according to our un- 
derstanding of what his word teaches, as interpreted by the 
laws of nature and not the written laws of God. God says, 
his law-givers are out of Judah ; man says, they are out of 
Benjamin; God says, the laws of Judah are the kingof Israel;, 
man says, they are out of Benjamin ; God says, what I have 
written shall remain ; man says, change the name of re- 
proach, and write it, he said he was kin^ of the Jews ; God 
says, change it not, it is the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South; leave that reproach there, Pilate, I will make it 
good. This is the bride to David, whether as Washington, 
the first judge, or Jackson, the seventh, or Polk, as the last 
of the seven, or as Davis from " between the feet of Judah" 
at the second annointing of David by national Judah, as the 
first law-giver, that Judah gives the nation. As gospel 
Judah was in sack-cloth for forty-two months in the land of 
Japheth, or Europe, or 1260 years, so shall these laws as 
husband and bride, in national Judah, be as dead for forty-two- 
months, or 1260 days, upon a union of the two with Ham as 
a servant, as " the head stone of the corner." These as civil 
and soul laws, are the world's Elias as the God servant to 
save it. 

When this Judah binds Japheth as his own foal to the 
vine, or civil law, he takes "Issachar asthe ass, or servant," 
and binds him to Josej^h as the church, or " choice vine," 
because he is the representative of Ham that followed the 
laws of naturti, or the beast, yet he has a soul to save, and 
God demands this of Japheth, or Judab. His church's gar- 
ments he washed in wine, as the grace of God, while his 
clothes he washed in literal blood, like "the master, who 
trod the wine-press all alone." These laws of God have built 
that Jerusalem that was to be '• inhabited as towns without 
walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein." They, a&v 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 113 

the representatives of the laws of God are that Jerusalem 
of which it is said, "though all nations burden themselves 
with Jerusalem, they shall be cut in pieces." This Judah 
is a lion's whelp, and as the representative of the laws of 
God, he has been driven about in the world ; " he stooped 
and he crouched," when once he is upon his feet, " who then 
will rouse him up. 

God will have his forms of laws united as in Tubal-Cain 
and his sister Naamah, or as in Simeon and Levi, yet not 
by statuatory law. The demonstration of the truth will 
supercede the necessity of any statute law upon the subject. 
The church, like the daughter of Jeptha, will be devoted to 
perpetual virginity, or like Abishag to David of whom it is 
said "David knew her not." The two will never be allied 
by civil law, yet by universal consent at the third and last 
annointing of David in the year 1944-5, or after another 
cycle of Orion, or at the end of fourteen more generations, 
or presidents, in this land, giving to each six years. David 
will be annointed as Solomon by universal consent. These 
laws, whose heads come of the tribe Judah, in national 
Judah, are " the stone out of the mountain," or they are 
"the ancient of days," because they stand for the laws at 
first set up by God himself. Witli these laws the saints 
"shall take the kingdom ;" " the stone out of the mountain 
ghall fill the world." This stone was first Levi or S. Carolina, 
then the seven that move as the "seven eyes of God," that 
put up the civil law in Naphtali. All the world will come 
to these in a civil sense. It was said of the church at Phila- 
delphia " The world shall come and worship at thy feet, and 
they shall know that I have loved thee." It is said of Judah, 
" Thy father's children shall bow down to thee." "Judah 
shall have his hand in the neck of his enemies ;" " from the 
prey thou art gone up, my son," 

This Judah stands for both the civil law as " States 
rights, " local charters," that was first put up in this Israel 
at Philadelphia, while the church of John Wesley, that wag 
first set up at the same place, represents God's laws of the 
soul, "Ye must bo born again." 

The law of the church, as at first set up, did not conform 
to the law of Moses in a civil sense, and hence it required a 
second settlement of Israel to make national Judah show 
what is both law and gospel. 

Let these thoughts suffice for Judah, while we pass to 
consider the double character of Joseph. 

Joseph is the type of the double laws, which bring the 
heads of the laws of Judah. At the birth of Joseph, Eachel 
said, " The Lord hath barkened to my petition, and taken 



120 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

away my reproach." Jacob, in blessing Joseph, gave him 
such a blessing as is not written in anything in the book or 
out of it. It is too long to write, but sums up all things, 
" From heaven above and the earth beneath, and to the ut- 
termost bounds of the everlasting hills : blessings on the 
head of him who was separate from his brethren." Joseph, 
moving as the laws of God for which he stands, has been re- 
proached in all the world. As God has determined these 
laws shall take the world, the farthest verge of the uni- 
verse will be brought under their dominion. These laws 
are Moses and Elijah, that have power to smite the earth. 
Of Joseph it is said, "From hence is the stone the Shepherd 
of Israel." As a stone they break; as a shepherd they 
gather. When the brethren ot Josej^h sold him, Eeuben plead 
for him, and had him placed in the pit, intending to take 
him away. AYhen the church represented by Joseph divided 
hi this land, it was a son of Eeuben. the Eev. John Early, 
(now Bishop.) that tried to get the church to pass over the 
division for four years. It was to no use — the time had 
come for Joseph to be taken away. When the civil head 
divided, it was that same Eeuben that called the convention 
at whose head sat one of her distinguished sons (John Tyler) 
to see if Eeuben could not take him away. The types must 
be fulfilled, and all of Eeubeu's efforts were in vain. Joseph 
was " two years in prison. He was seventeen years old 
when he was taken captive, and he was thirty years old 
when he stood before Pharoah." The church was in prison 
from 1844 to 18-16. From ISi-l to 1861-3, when it was taken 
captive, are seventeen years, and it will be thirty years be- 
fore it will have a presidential head, or in 1874-6, that will 
hold its doctrines as taught by Moses. In other words, 
Abraham, as law, will be circumcised when he is ninetj^and 
nine years old, or in 1875, at which time Ishmael, the son 
of the bond-woman, that came up with Mr. Lincoln's procla- 
mation of 1863, will be thirteen years old, and he too will 
be circumcised, or, what is the same thing, conform to the 
law of the flesh as given in God's Eook, The law of the 
flesh stands to the Japhetic Israel as the law written in the 
flesh before the law was finished. The writer has written 
these thoughts more extensively in a larger work not expe- 
dient to be given the public at this time, and we cannot 
dwell in this outline. 

In reference to the law-giver as the civil head, "They 
put his feet in fetters," as David said they did to Joseph. 
He too was in prison for two years, and he is God's agent 
to show Avhich way the law moves. Like the master, he 
was taken from prison and judgment, and whether he will, 



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like David, outride the storm and eome off conqueror, or 
whether he will he crucified hy the moh, time will show. 
One thing is positive : he came from the trihe of Asher, of 
whom it is said, " As thy day is thy strength shall be." So 
long as he is of use in God's demonstration, " so long will he 
be used." In reference to who belongs to Joseph as the 
church, it is said of him, '-blessings of the breasts and of 
womb." This is given to show that Joseph as the church 
has little ones connected with it. There is no need for xur- 
ther debate upon either Greek prepositions or verbs upon 
this subject. Circumcision was the outward sign down 
which to look for the " Shiloh " upon whom the laws of God 
were to meet in the Israel of Shem. When this law in the 
flesh, and by which an oath was confirmed, by placing the 
hand on the flesh, was supplanted by the written law of the 
flesh, baptism became the outwa^*d sign down which line the 
world was to look for the nation to bring forth the laws of 
the kingdom. It was not through Confucus, nor Zoriaster, 
nor Mahomet, it was to come. According to the literal 
types, it was to be through TsTaamah, and Euth, and John 
the forerunner, and Andrew. K"ot only was the church of 
Japheth to come through this line, but the head of the civil 
was to come through the same line. The church was to 
bring the civil, according to the promise made, that the 
" seed of the woman down the lines of Cain and Seth, should 
conquer the seed of the Serpent or JSTahash." The line from 
Cain and Seth, as civil and soul that met in Lamech, in 
Philadelphia, was the place of union of the two; as to place 
which union made that Joseph, that was first sent away to 
his country and people from England as the " earth that 
helped the woman." 

It was in ^N'aphtali, after the same two had been as Jo- 
seph sent away the second time, that "Eachel prevailed." 
These, as civil and church laws, were each organized upon 
the same laws. The head of the church, like the judiciary 
>of the. civil, was for life. If the law of the one was elective 
for four years, so with the other. If the civil located its 
head as a place in Catholic Maryland, the other went to the 
same place to get its first bishop, in 1774. If the one has its 
lower and higher courts, with the right of appeal, so has the 
other. If the one went into Manassah to get its heads of 
division, so did the other go into the same tribe to complete 
its division. If the one, as law or Abraham, went through 
the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, so did the 
other. 

We remember, some years ago to have read a speech 
of the Hon. Henry Winter Davis, made at an Episcopal Con- 



122 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

vention in some northern city. When the question of sending- 
the gospel to California was before the convention, the hon- 
orable gentleman stated, that while they were debating 
the question, the Methodist church had taken possession of 
the land. HowAvell this agrees with the blessing on Joseph. 
" Joseph is a fruitful vine, whose branches run over the 
wall." The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is God's 
chosen bride for the husband by such an array of testimony 
it seems no w^ay is left by which man can dispute it. God 
is after the law of both the body and the soul, as these were 
given by Moses and Christ. Nothing less than these for the 
double man Will answer the purpose God intended. Since 
the w^orld began, these never met in an organized form, ac- 
cording to God's laws, as Joseph, till they met in the civil 
government of this South land, as put up in Naj^htali 
and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who as the 
church stood to represent Naphtali as a character, when, 
as a ''hind let loose, he gave goodly w^ords " by publish- 
ing his law, in conformity to Moses, upon the ser- 
vice of Ham as a servant of tribute." This question is 
so easily understood it is hardly worth while to show its 
truth. The Israel of Shem, or the Jews, had a ceremonial 
law foi the soul. The Israel of Japheth had a king for the 
civil and also the ceremonial for the soul. The Israel of this 
land of Japheth's enlargement had the civil law, but there 
were seven churches to represent the soul. One of these 
seven only dates from the tribe of Judah as the law- 
giver. This was the one that w^as put up at Philadelphia 
after forty years journeying in the wilderness. This was 
the one of the seven that was promised to be kept, and at 
whose feet the world was to worship. This w^as the one 
that divided in 1844, and it was the Southern wing of this 
one, that conformed the church law to the civil law as given 
by Moses in the character of Naphtali in 1860-1. Then it 
was that Joseph, or Eachel, as the book of God, " i)revailed." 

As God's demonstration leaves nothing to the conjecture 
of men, either as to civil or soul laws, the contest in this 
and land of Israel, as to forms of laws, is not between ^N'aomi 
Buth, as Eome and England; nor is it between the Episco- 
pal Euth, as the church of England, and Presbyterian Orpah, 
standing for all the Congregational churches, but it is be- 
tween the two wings of the church of John. Wesley, that 
date from Philadelphia. Let us examine into these, and see 
what God teaches as between them. 

It has been a question of disagreement between the par- 
ties composing the church of Mr. Wesley, whether the 
church, in its official head, holds an order as Bishop, that is 



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higher than that of a Presbyter. The church in England 
follows the order of the Presbyter, while in the United 
States he appointed it a bishop. As an office, he was ap- 
pointed to be the general superintendent ; as an order by 
his ordination, he was a bishop. In the published debates^ 
of the division of the church in 1844-5, the northern wing 
took the ground that the superintendent was an office and 
not an order. The southern wing took the ground, that as 
an order it held for life, from which the individual could not 
be disposed except for malfeasance. 

God purposel}" involved the difficulty, to show his plan 
was that the church had a head — that to " Paul was commit- 
ted the care of all the churches." How was this question set- 
tled in the division of that church, which dates its rise in this 
land from Philadelphia, yet datesits head with a bishop from 
Catholic Maryland ? 

In order to arrive at the answer to this question, we 
must go back to the types, as set in the Israel of Shem. The 
tabernacle of Moses, the first and second temple by Solo- 
mon and Zerubabel, were literal symbols of the church, 
which was set up by Christ and the apostles, of whom An- 
drew was the first. Who built the literal tabernacle with 
Moses? A man of Judah, and a man of the tribe of Dan. 
Who built the first temple? Accounts are doubled in refer- 
ence to this question. This is intentional. One account 
says, " it was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali." The 
second says, "it was a widow's son of the daughters of Dan.' ^ 
The second temple was built by Zerubabel and Joshua, " the 
high priest." To whom in this land do these characters 
refer ? They have respect to the bishops that stood at the 
head of the southern wing of the church in this land at its 
division. Who are these? Bishops Joshua Soule and James 
Andrew. From whence came they in this land? The one 
is from the tribe of Dan and the other is from the tribe of 
Judah. Joshua Soule came from Dan of the North, and 
came into Dan of the South. The State of Tennessee is the 
tribe of Dan in the South, while Georgia is Judah. Are 
these the men to build the tabernacle with Moses ? 
The very same. From which tribes did they come ? The 
tribe of Huram sent the man of Dan out of the North. 
Dan in the South as Tennessee, was a part of the tribe of 
Simeon or North Carolina, in the South, as the second son 
of Jacob, so the tribe of Simeon, the second son of Jacob, in 
the first settlement, was Plymouth, or Massachusetts, and 
his tribe of Oan that came of him was Maine. If from this 
tribe of Dan in the North, Joshua came, he came into Dan. 
of the South. 



124 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

As moves the soul, or cliurch, so moves the body, or civil 
law of the bod}?. If the vice-head of Mr. Lincoln, as Ham- 
lin, came of Dan, or Maine, in the North, so his second vice- 
head as Andrew Johnson, came of Dan in the South. Let 
this pass, as we are following God's demonstration of the 
law of the church. 

Joshua Soule was born of Dan, or Maine, in the North, 
and came into Dan, or Tennessee, of the South. He was 
the son of a widow women, whether of ISTaphtali, or Dan, for 
the reason that in neither case did the church have a hus- 
band. It was not established by law to make it a husband, 
nor did it conform to Moses as the husband. The church w?s 
in the hand of JSTaphtali, or the Levites, but this Naphtali, 
though traveling as "a hind," it was not a " hind let loose," 
because she was governed in two respects by the laws of men 
iind not the laws of Grod. God selected two heads to correct 
two errors, and with which to build the tabernacle. 

In the trial upon Bishop Andrew about slave-holding, 
"No fault was found against him." Yet in order to reach 
him, the office of a bishop was lowered and held to be only 
an office and not an order. This placed filthy garments 
upon "Joshua the high priest," who was the chosen agent 
of God to work with Zerubabel in building the gospel tem- 
ple. God's prophet commanded those that stood by to take 
the " Filthy garments off of Joshua the high priest," and 
clothe him with change of raiment, and set a fai:* miter 
upon his head, all of which was done by the church, South, 
when it held to the three orders in the ministry of bishop, 
priest and deacon. 

In the names of Joshua and Andrew, the civil and gos- 
pel compound together as body and soul. The seventh 
head of law as judges, had for its first judge Joshua. The 
seventh for gospel was the apostles, of whom Andrew was 
first. In compounding these in this land, as the heads of 
the church, they are Joshua and Andrew. As between these 
two sevenths, surnames were given to men, so Joshua holds 
the given, and Andrew the surname. Thes^^mbolic names of 
these are Joshua Soule, as body and soul. That of James 
Andrew is " law and gospel." One other name stands sym- 
bolically for the same — it is " Judah Benjamin," Jefterson 
Davis' Secretary of State. That fact that holds with 
the church, as gospel, is the same with the civil heads, or 
judges of this Japhetic Israel. The first judge, as George 
Washington, is the synopsis of all the judges in Israel. 
Thomas Jefferson is the doubting Thomas that divides the 
apostles, the same as the second half of this Israel beyond 
the Jordan divides this Israel. That second half was 



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bought by Thomas Jefferson, and it is given to show to this 
Israel it is the doubtino' Thomas in reference to the laws of 
Grod. James Madison is James the greater, and is the father 
of the laws of this Israel. -'James the less," is James Mon- 
roe, and with him the natiocality of the Israel of both law 
and gospel was cut off. With him, as Jaw, the first Israel as 
unity ended, and the second demonstratively began by the 
adoption of the Missouri Compromise. Andrew Jackson, is 
the apostle of law, and is given to show unity in Israel, 
though demonstratively it is duality. John Tyler is the 
apostle John that brings the first and the last, by bringing 
Benjamin as law, which tribe is Texas. His name is John 
as the Eevelations. As the literal John brought the Benja- 
min as "the lone star," standing for the law of Moses, so 
will the millennial John bring the law of Moses for the 
world. James K. Polk, as law, closed the line, as with 
him law went through the land. Let the reader attempt 
to ai:)ply these truths to the seven northern judges of 
this Israel. This may be done to the two that Simeon of 
the North had, as the two Adams', in the days of Israel's 
unity, and then again to the last as James Buchanan, that 
closed the line with James, while all the rest Avillbe as much 
confused as Babylon. These are Martin, and William, and 
Millard, and Franklin. Any accident in this arrangement? 
No accident in anything. Israel lias never made one mis- 
take, according to the types. An^^body to be praised or 
blamed? No ! no ! no ! Nothing but the God of the world 
showing he is king, and he is going to rule by his own laws. 

Cyrus delivered the literal tribes from the literal Baby- 
lon. God said of Cyrus, " I havesurnamed thee," hence the 
surnames of the representatives of the laws of God in this 
'Japhetic Israel. 

The gospel that Christ gave became in Eome "the man 
of sin," that united civil and soul laws in the Pope of Eome. 
The gospel of this land that dates from Judah, has in the 
North, as the Methodist church, become " the man of sin " 
by a union of civil and soul laws, according to the laws of 
the natural man. The Southern wing of that church stands 
as the "doubting Thomas " in reference to God's own laws 
concerning Ham as a servant of tribute. These will never 
doubt again after this tragedy ends, nor will it ever agam 
be said, " Cotton is king." God's witnesses are his written 
laws that have been in reproach long enough. These are 
the world's tormentors. They are constantly crying, " Down 
with your natural king ; down with your natural religion." 
The man-child, as Joseph, has been shot at, and men may 
rejoice at their death. It is only for a measured time this 



126 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

rejoicing will be had. They will stand upon their feet 
again. " There is none like unto the God of Jeshuron, who 
rideth upon the heavens in their help." The eternal God is 
their refuge and underneath them are the everlasting 
arms, and he shall thrust out the enemy from before them, 
and shall say destroy them. 

While there are a multitude of individual characters, 
that are used as types in the Israel of Shem, and are given 
to find their anti-type in the Israel of Japheth, such as 
Ahithophe, Hushi, &c, yet as these are not required in this 
synopsis, we let them pass. 

It was said by the law-giver " that the twelve a|)ostles 
should set on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of 
Israel." It was in the trial of Bishop Andrew that this was 
fulfilled. As it was Catholic Eome that betrayed the Savior 
in that they departed from the law of gospel, so in this 
Japhetic Israel, the resolutions to depose Bishop Andrew 
came from Catholic Maryland. 

This was the tribe chosen to act the part of Judas among 
i;he tweh e apostles. Christ said, " Mine own familiar friend, 
in whom I trusted, lifted his heel against me." Maryland 
was a slave-holding State and should have stood with her 
sisters in the trial of the beloved bishop. God's demonstra- 
tion required it otherwise. The two other tribes, or States, 
'Or apostles that journeyed with the others in the South, and 
upon whom " lots were to be cast to fill the place of Judas, 
were Delaware and Texas. Bishop Andrew was tried in 
1844 and in 1845, the nation cast the lot, and Texas as 
Mathias, took the place of Judali. A double act by this is 
represented, showing that the same method of " casting lots 
ibr an apostle," likewise applies in a civil sense. That 
principle first adopted by the first bishop, as Francis Asbury, 
is this law of God. Asbury was appointed to the oflSce by 
Mr. Wesley, yet he refused to be ordained to the office until 
he was elected by " casting lots for him." God is always in 
the lot whether in making a tribe or a bishop. That Judas, 
which betrayed Bishop Andrew for thirty pieces of silver, 
has repented and thrown down the money, saying, "I have 
betrayed innocent blood," by returning to his brethren 
This fact, like almost everj other, was written by the writer 
before it came to pass. This Judas has another part to act; 
he holds the nations bag, and in him the nations law-makers 
meet. The honorable councellor has failed. Let that pass. 

Let us dispose of this tribe, Judas, in this connection. 
"Eahab, the harlot," in literal Israel, is the same as Tamar, 
the^ harlot, in gospel Israel. It was at the union of church 
and State by Constantine, that Tubaleain. and his sister, 



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Naamah, turned Tamar, the church of gospel, to a harlot. 
This Naamah is the same as Naomi, the mother-in-law of 
Euth and Orpah. The dividing line between Naomi and 
Euth, was drawn between the two daughters of Henry YIII, 
as Mary and Elizabeth. Catholic Mary is Naomi, Protestant 
Elizabeth, is Euth. The tribes in this Japhetic Israel to 
represent these are Catholic Maryland and Yirginia. It 
was Eahab that saved the twelve spies, represented by the 
two as Joshua and Caleb. It was Naomi, or Mary, that 
saved the twelve represented by the two as Old and l^ew 
Testaments in Eome. It is from, or in, Catholic Maryland, 
in this Israel, the two take their rise in this land. While 
the civil as law, holds its seat in Catholic Maryland, it was 
in her the church as gospel took its head, or first bishop, in 
1774. It was promised Eahab that she should be preserved 
amid the overthrow of the idolatrous Canaanites. That 
unity of laws, which met in her God, means to preserve 
upon the principles of his own government, and not as they 
have been corrupted by men. The same is true in reference 
to the unity that exists between civil and soul laws in Euth. 
When she says to Naomi, "Where thou diest I will die," it 
is to be understood that as unity upon human principles, 
both Euth and Naamali will end, yet as a type of God's 
unity neither will die. 

Let us now come to the most interesting part of this, 
the grandest demonstration of truth the world has ever 
known. 

It has been told before, but it is so ingeniously con- 
cealed that even the thoughtful reader may not have dis- 
covered it. It was shown in the beginning that the two 
cherubims were Moses and twelve patriarchs, and Christ 
with twelve apostles. The one was written in four books of 
law, and the other b}" four evangelists, and that the ark was 
veiled in the middle by four great prophets and twelve 
minor ones. It was likewise shown that the characters and 
symbols of the Old Testament were transferred to those of 
the New Testament, and that these held the relation to each 
other of body and soul. 

Has the reader discovered that those tribes in this land, 
which came of the four original mothers, have become sub- 
stitutes of the mothers in their symbolic character ? And 
not only this, but that the three tribes that were bought on 
the west of the Jordan are the substitutes of the whole of 
law, gospel and the prophets, and of all that has been taught 
by the first half of Israel ? 

The two sons of Eachel are Benjamin and Joseph, but 
Benjamin is law, and Joseph both law and gospel, Who 



128 - THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

stands to represent these in this Israel? Benjamin is Texas^ 
and Joseph is Ephraim, or Missouri, that is to become "Mul- 
titudes of nations." AVho is G-ad ? He is the dividino; tribe 
of Israel, and stands for all the prophets. Is Gad " the seer 
of David," the same Gad as the literal tribe of Gad repre- 
sented by Arkansas in this land? The very same. Who is 
David ? He is civil law and soul law — that is, he is Moses 
and Christ, or Benjamin and Joseph, with all the prophets 
as his seer. With these prophets the ark is veiled. Are 
these three tribes that make the ark bought tr'oes ? Every 
one of them has been bought Avith thirty pieces of silver. 
Has it been the price of blood? With oceans of blood, from 
Abel down to this " tree of knowledge " it has been bought.. 
The lower story of the ark is Benjamin, or Texas, as the law 
of Moses. The upper story is Ephraim, or Missouri, or 
Christ. The middle story, as the prophets, is Gad, or Ar- 
kansas. 

Have these transfers come all the way from Noah, or 
from God's covenants with Abraham, to arrive at this truth ? 
Let us see how this has been done. The first covenant given 
to Shem as law was the " first.born son," and ended at the 
coming of Christ as the "first begotten son," and the cove- 
nant was changed from the body, or law of the body, to the 
soul, or law of the soul. This second covenant was for gos- 
pel, and was gi^en to Japheth in Europe. While Benjamin 
is law, yet the Israel of law, with its ceremonial law, became 
Eeuben, the first born son of Jacob, after it divided. The 
gospel given to Japheth was Joseph, yet when that divided^ 
it became Simeon and Levi, in Eotne. The first and second 
wings of Israel became Eeuben as the first in Shem, and 
Simeon as the second in Japheth- — that is, the law that Levi 
as Moses gave became Eeuben, and the gospel that Judali 
gave became Simeon and Levi, as civil and ceremonial. 

Who stands to represent these in this restored Japhetic 
Israel ? The first and second sons. The first as Eeuben is 
Yirginia ; the second as Simeon is Plymouth. These are 
the first and second as halves in the first settlement of Israel 
as law. If the head of this Eeuben was Elizabeth, the head 
of Simeon was Cromwell. The tribes which these gave the 
nation are representative tribes of those characters which 
these heads have acted in Israel. A.s Israel become dual'ty 
in Shem, so have the tribes of Eeuben holding the north- 
west, become duality in this Israel. As it was through 
Euth, or Elizabeth, the churches head has come, so the civil 
head, as the half tribe of Joseph as Manassah, or Kentucky, 
or as the son of Eeuben, he is Bohan, to set the northern 
boundary of national Judah, come through Elizabeth, or 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 12&?^ 

Eeuben, or Yirginia. If this one tribe that came of Eeuben 
stands for the two tribes as Benjamin and Judah in the 
division of the Israel of Shem, the other five of Eeuben, 
as Ohio, Illinois, &c., will stand for the ten as Ephraim 
under Jeroboam. This son of Eeuben, as Kentucky, be- 
comes the substitute of Eeuben ; As Simeon and Levi were 
joined as one, so the tribe of Dan in the North, is the 
representative of that forcible unity ; this tribe is Maine, 
the son of Simeon, or force in the North. In the first set- 
tlement of this Israel, the phrase from "Dan to Sheba," 
means from " Maine to Georgia." In the second settlement 
the phrase from "Dan to Sheba," means from "Tennessee 
to Texas." This forcible Simeon of the North will become 
as Ephraim, the younger of the two half tribes of Joseph; 
then will the prophecy of Jacob be fulfilled in reference to 
the two sons of Joseph, "These shall be mine — as Eeuben 
and Simeon they shall be mine." These two as half tribes 
shall become the substitutes of law given to Shem, and gos- 
pel given to Joseph. They shall become the substitutes of 
"unstable Eeuben" in this land and of "cruel Simeon." 
That which stood for Simeon and Levi in Eome as forcible 
union to one church, or which stood as Simeon of the North, 
or Plymouth, upon the original doctrine of Levi, of" free- 
dom in religion," since Leah took the husband in 1821, has 
become forcible in Levi, the same as Simeon was in Eome. 
The Church must think as the State dictates. This is by- 
God's appointment, "Cain shall bear rule over his brother." 
" The body shall rule soul." The civil shall rule the church, 
till the time appointed. This forcible Simeon of the first 
settlement, as the second son, is transferred to Simeon orr 
North Carolina, as the second in the settlement of the- 
Israel of both law and gospel. The tribe which came of this 
Simeon is Eachcl's. and becomes the substitute of forcible 
Simeon. This tribe is Dan or Tennessee. He teaches "the 
voice of the peo2)le in their tribe capacity, is the voice of 
God, when according to the law Moses." 

The two laws which come of Judah, stand for both soul 
and body, and are Levi and Judah. The two tribes of Judah 
are the substitutes of these laws — these ai'e Asher and Naph-- 
tali, or Mississippi and Alabama. These are unity in Naph- 
tali, and are the same as Joseph, as his two sons, Manassah 
and Ephraim. The substitutes of the two bought tribes are 
those laws as civil and church, which stand as their oppo- 
sites, forty years from their coming. 

These are the very same as the two of Joseph, or the 
two of Judah, and these are civil law and soul law. ^ In 
every case they are the civil government of the seven tribes 



130 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

that first set up the Southern Confederacy and the church 
government of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. It 
is the most complicated, yet the most exact, demonstration 
of truth, that this world ever saw. It is the summary of 
all prophecy and of all history. 

This is Grod's method to overcome the confusion of 
Babylon. Men need no longer to learn Hebrew and Greek 
to find the truth. Grod has moved out a long ways from this 
confusion. Let such as would learn come to Grod's teaching. 
You have his book, you have his history, you have it all 
acted over again in this grand summary. Come here and 
learn. You need not be afraid you will exhaust the subject. 
You may gaze, and wonder and adore, until, like the writer, 
you will feci that you ought to cover yourself with sack- 
cloth and ashes, in view of your littleness, and ignorance 
and corruption. Keader, would you study these truths 
enough to learn the great lesson they teach, and then read 
the books and papers that are teeming from the press, and 
the laws of all the law-makers, you would feel, as did Elijah, 
that the wicked had taken possession of Cod's inheritance, 
and that you were the only one left in all the land. You would 
feel that you would prefer to be hidden with Grod in the 
lonely cavern, or in the humble dwelling of the poor widow, 
than to be lifted to the highest honor Ahab or Jezebel could 
confer. 

Will the world come to these demonstrated laws of 
Grod? They are the "man-child that the woman, or Bible, 
has brought forth that is to rule all nations with a rod of 
iron. The plagues of the book will be added to men till 
they cease to mend It. These are the same laws that were 
first set up at Philadelphia for both the civil and church, and 
they hold "the key of David." 

The world shall come and worship at the feet of this 
Joseph as the laws of Cod. The archers have been shooting 
at them, and a thousand gallows have been made upon 
which to hang them, yet they will take the world. How 
will this be done? In the same manner that the four States 
or tribes, as Eouben, Simeon, Dan and Crad, come to the 
seven that first put up the civil government in Kaphtali. 
For whom does Eeuben stand ? He stands for the Israel of 
law, or the Jews, and also for Euth as the Episcopal Church. 
Y/'ill these come ? These will come according to the type 
sot by Eeuben in this summary of God's Israel. • 

Will Simeon as Eome, or Simeon as the Congregational 
or Presb3^tcrian churches come ? All of these will come. 
These will come as did the tribe of Simoon down to the 
seven that stand as the "seven eyes of God." Will 



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all in all lands come who hold that every nation should be 
the judge of its own laws? All these will come, as did Dan, 
by the consent of its inhabitants. Will all who hold the 
doctrine of equilibrium, or balance in power, come? All of 
these will come as did Gad come to the seven that first set 
up this government. These are given as God's synopsis to 
show how the world will come. God's laws will subjugate 
the world, " beginning at Jerusalem." The stone out of 
the mountain in the land of Japheth, is the nation to 
take the kingdom. The greatness of the kingdon 
shall be given to these because " the hair of his head (or 
the laws to govern him) are like the pure wool." " The 
waters will be first to the ankles, then to the knees, then to 
the loins, and until they become an impassible river. As 
the tribe of Manassah began the second journey in Israel, 
so the first great battle of Manassas was the synopsis of this 
seven years contest. Time will show in what respects we 
have erred. 

It now remains to measure the prophetic times that set 
the history of Israel's movements. That this question may 
not be clouded with an excess of explanations in assigning 
the reasons to set the points from which to date the 
measures, facts are all that need be stated. While the 
prophet Daniel is the leading prophet, given to measure the 
times of the Japhetic or gospel Israel, the symbol for the 
predicate of the prophecy belongs to the Israel of Shem. 
Daniel speaks of Israel as one, without respect to the three 
diff'erent theaters of Israel's action, as in Shem or Asia, 
Japheth or Europe, and America as the land in which 
"Japheth is enlarged over Shem" The apostle John, who 
uses the same measures of Daniel, (in some respect,) shows 
that Daniel had respect to gospel Israel as to measure, but 
to the Israel of Shem as the literal act upon which the sym- 
bol for the measure is based. 

As everything in the history of Israel has its correspon- 
ing opposite in the type, so it must find its corresponding op- 
posite in the anti-type. Let this point be illus4:rated by an 
example or two taken in this land, in reference to annoint- 
ing David, as both civil and soul laws. In the first settle- 
ment of this Israel, the literal acts of Oglethorpe and the 
Eev. John Wesley, in the tribe of Judah, find their corres- 
ponding opposite in both civil and church laws forty years 
to Philadelphia. The same is true in reference to the com- 
ing of the two tribes of Issachar and Zebulon. Each of the 
acts by which these tribes came into Israel finds its corres- 
ponding opposite in the second annointing of the laws of 
David, forty years from each. Let these examples answer 



132 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Upon this point. As David was annointed three times to be- 
king in Israel because of the laws of God which met on 
him, the same as in the literal ark of Noah, three times 
must the " man of sin," as the corresponding opposite of 
David, or Joseph, be set up for king, while the laws of God, 
or the woman was in the wilderness. These three annoint- 
ings of the "man of sin," stand as the " abomination of 
desolation," to the laws of God. As Daniel uses three 
measures of time for the three fold ending of this " man of 
sin," each of these measures must be applied to the differ- 
ent periods that mark the " abomination," or man of sin, on 
account of human laws, instead of the laws of God, in order 
to reach the whole sense in the fulfillment. The literal 
abomination in the Israel of Shem, was the forcing of literal 
Israel to eat swines' flesh, or the placing of heathen idols in 
the temple of Jerusalem. The meaning of this was the 
forcing any human laws contrary to the laws of God. Any 
law of man contrary to God's written law after the comple- 
tion of the law is " the abomination of desolation." 

The Christ is the Abel, whose blood had to speak from 
the ground for forty and two months from " the abomination 
of desolation." The laws of "the Christ" are the Christ. 
The two sons of God as "the first born" and the "first be- 
gotten, met on "the Christ. These are God's laws given 
by Moses as "the first born " and by Christ as the first be- 
gotten." Whatever has been exalted to power by human 
laws during the forty-two months or 1260 years, these were 
to "speak from the ground, or prophecy in sackcloth," is 
of man, and cannot be the laws of God. 

The three points from which to date the measures of 
Daniel are first, the Union of church and State, under Con- 
stantine, in the year 325 A. D. In this union the church 
was subordinate to the State and existed by the will of the 
State. The second annointing of " the man of sin " in the 
gospel to Japheth was in the time of Justenian, when he 
as Emperor of Eome, claimed the projDerty of the citizen, 
as the property of the church, and confiscated it for the 
churches benefit. If Constantine laid the foundation for 
the civil division of Eome by building the city of Constan- 
tinople, Justenian prepared the way for the churches divi- 
sion by the building of the church of St. Soj^hia, at Con- 
stantinople, which he said excelled the temple of Solomon. 

The point from which to date this elevation or annoint- 
ing of David, upon human laws, was in the years 530-3 A. 
D. That which was subordinate to the civil with Constan- 
tine, was regarded its equal in the code of Justenian, and 
the church became a joint heir with the State as to the rights 
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The third and last act of this " abomination " was when 
-all the tribes in gospel Japheth, said all power in both de- 
partments of the kingdom was given into the hands of the 
Pope of Rome, and in whom the church or soul swallowed 
up the body, contrary to the teachings of God, that the 
" blood of Abel," was to speak from the ground for " forty 
and two months." From the best light before us, nine of 
the ten kingdoms of \Yest Eome in the land of Japheth ac- 
knowledged the supremacy of the Pope in both civil and 
soul laws in the year 606. These nine stood for one foot of 
gospel Judah, given to Japheth, while England as the other 
foot did not acknowledge the Pope's supremacy tell the year 
608 A. D. 

These stand for the three annointings of David as civil 
and soul laws in Rome, or Japheth, and set the times from 
which to date the three different measures of times as used 
by the prophet Daniel, when they are used as a day for a year. 
These three measures are 1260, or 1290, or 1335 years. The 
last measure is a blessing on those who come to the 1335 
years. 

As there are three points from which to date these 
measures, each of the three endings at 1335 years, will be 
with some great good to the people with whom they end. 
At the last of which, David, as the representative of the 
laws, or son of God, will be crowned " Lord of the world." 

Let us now take the points that are well defined as the 
^'abomination that takes away the daily sacrifice," because 
the civil head interferes w'th the prayer to God as " the 
daily sacrifice," and see how they have ended in the fulfill- 
ment. If to 325 be added 1260, it is equal to 1585. This is 
about the middle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when that 
which became forcible union with Constantine was liberated 
by toleration under England's first protestant queen. 

The twenty years service of Jacob to Laban began his 
exodus back to his " fixther's laws. " If to 1585 we add the 
twenty years for Jacob to gather up his family, it will end 
in 1605. It was in the following year that vSir W. Raleigh 
began the settlement of the tribe of Reuben as the exodus 
of the Japhetic Israel. If to 325 we add 1290, it is equal to 
1615. It was the year following that the citizen began to 
■claim civil rights by a clear title to the domain upon which 
he lived in Reuben, and not in the name of the crown. If 
to 325 we add 1335, it will be 1660, and is the year in which 
Charles II was restored to the throne of England, whose 
father had been beheaded by the Roundheads under Crom- 
well. This was the blessing at the end of the 1335 years to 
the original land of Japheth. Let these same numbers be 



134 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

applied to the second annointing of the abomination in the- 
year 530-3. 

If the first as 1260 be added to 533, it is equal to 1793, 
and is the jenr in which the Jacobins beheaded Louis of 
France, which stands as the other foot of gospel Judah 
given to Japheth. If to 531 1290 be added, it is 1821, and 
and sets the time in this Israel of Japheth, when the Israel 
of both law and gospel was to be cut off by the Missouri 
Compromise line. 

That which began the exodus with Elizabeth and 
Heuben, in one foot of gospel Judah, measures from the other 
foot the Israel of both law and gospel. The same facts that 
apply to the individual tribes of Israel in this land, apply 
also in the measures of the tribes from the land of Japheth, 
or Europe. If to 533, the last number as 1335 be added it 
will be 1868. At which time the king in this land may be 
restored as in England. This will be upon the law of God 
as given by Moses and Christ, and not upon human laws. 

Applying these several numbers to " the man of sin," 
yet the type of the laws of Grod, the same as Joseph, or Da- 
vid, m the person of the Pope of Home at 606-8. They will 
stand thus, 606-8 added to 1260 equals, 1866-8, this is the 
time for the standing up of the two witnesses of God. The 
one as the church and the other as the civil. If Melchezedek 
as the church stood ujoon his feet in the year 1866, the civil 
as Abraham ought to be upon his feet by the close of 1868. 
]N"o convocation of the church since the first Christian Em- 
peror, Constantine, was ever more important or freighted 
with greater results than that which met in the South 
land of Jacob at New Orleans in 1866. It was God 
moving by his own types and measures of his own prophetic 
times. 

We pretend not to dictate in any matter but only follow 
where God leads the way. If the writer wrote before it came 
to pass that that church would not remove that name of re- 
proach, (South) it was because the types pointed that way. 
This sect is God's chosen Eome to claim the world. Eome 
was a name of place ; South is a name of place. But then it 
is a reproach. God said it should be reproached till his ap- 
pointed time. The first name as Methodist was given in 
'^ reproach," when that became popular in this land, God's 
measured times were not up, hence another name of " re- 
proach" was required, this was found in the word "South," 
which was synonymous with "pro-slavery." Both were re- 
proached as Moses and Christ ; these had to be reproached. 
Does God despise theda}^ of small things ?" Who art thou, O, 
great mountain; before the God of the world, thou shalt be- 



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come a plain." God's reproached witnesses shall become 
the head of the corner. "The God that answers by fire 
will be God." Let men call Abra-Ham an old fogy. Let 
them say of Koah he was drunk, and there is no need to re- 
gard the madness of a drunken man. Let men dictate to 
the God of the world, and burn up the bible unless itteaches 
as they say it ought; while from the depths of the soul that is 
within us we pity them; we are impotent to arrest the storm, 
and can only bid them drive on ; you will find out whether 
there is a God that rules in the affairs of men, and that rules 
by his own laws before it is done. Man has been a fool ever 
since Adam and Eve begat the " Nahash ;" he can learn in 
but one school. Like the child, he must get burnt before he 
knows what is the meaning of the word fire. 'No use for 
God to tell him it will burn liim ; he must feel it before he' 
will believe it. Man is the same thick-headed dolt, at this 
day, that he was in Adam. "Let that tree alone," had 
about as much influence over Eve as God's laws, '• Thou 
shaltnot covet thy neighbors servant," or as " Servants be 
obedient to your masters," have over the world to-day. In 
answer to these laws of God, it is nature, that is, it is the 
beast that says otherwise. 

If the church has a bishoj), he is not to be diocesian; he 
is to be a bishop in all places and at all times, ready to per- 
form the office of a bishop. He can be no more restricted 
in the office of his calling than can that of a son of Aaron, 
who is called to go into all the world and preach the gospel. 
An office may be confined to place; not so with an order. 

It is the ord<er of God that none but the Levites shall 
take down the ark and set it up. Whatever others may do 
in reference to temporalities, they are forbidden to buy 
their priests, as did Micah, and hence the necessity of a 
head to the church. It does not appear that this can be 
allowed when the church reaches the point set by Jacob, as 
" God the Holy Ghost," of giving a " tenth of all to Levi." 
This is the standard set by God, and when Jacob reaches 
the laws of God for which he stands, expressed by his 
father's house, it does not even then appear that the church 
will be allowed to buy her priests. Let these thoughts pass, 
as we are measuring prophetic times. 

The 12G0 from the time " the little horn," or "man of 
sin," came up among the ten horns, or kingdoms of West 
Eome, ends in 18G6-8 This ending of the 1260 years from 
the elevation of the Pope in 1868, is the same time as the 
1335 years from Justenian, of which time it is said, "blessed 
is he that waiteth and cometh to such time." This time 
brought back the literal king to Judah in " the earth that 



136 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

helped the woman," and it would indicate that mighty 
events by this double ending are to take place in national 
Judah. As it is no great ways in the future, let us not 
speculate. 

If the second number as 1290 be added to 606-8, it is 
^qual to 1896-8. By which time not only the " beasts of this 
land will be slain, but all the other beasts that hold domin- 
ion on this continent will have that dominion taken away." 

If to the 606-8 the last number of 1335 be added, it will 
be equal to 1941-3. At which time the laws of Grod will be 
crowned king, as was David, by all the tribes ; not only by 
the two tribes of Benjamin and Judah in this land, but by 
the ten tribes of Japheth, or Europe. A range of five years 
from 1940 to 1945, will include the ending of all prophetic 
measures of time ; Grod's truths will then become so plain, 
"time need be no longer counted according to the prophets. 
From that date will begin the thousand years rest of Israel 
from wars and strifes, and military schools will be done 
away with. 

Let us look at these a little. This seven years war will 
separate Eachel from Leah by showing the world for what 
laws these stand. Rachel is the word of God for both body 
and soul. Leah mixes up the laws of Grod with human laws. 
'The seven years war of the Eevolution in this land got both 
Leah and Rachel to Jacob, which lasted for one cycle of 
Orion, or eighty-four years, in which there were fourteen 
generations or heads of political government. This ended, 
and Israel went into capti vity. There are fourteen genera- 
tions from the captivity to Christ. This fourteen will in- 
clude another cycle of Orion, or eighty-four years. These 
will not be great heads of civil government as in West Rome, 
•or England, each of which had seven from the gospel as 
Abraham to the rise of David, as " local charters," " States 
rights," nor will it be heads as presidents in this land with 
seven from the North, and seven from the South, but it will 
count by time, and six years will make a generation, because 
aix times fourteen are eighty-four. If to 1860 eighty- 
four be added, it will be 1944 ; so if from 325, as the time 
■of union under Constantine, 180 years be added as the Sab- 
'batic day time of 1260 and 180, as the Sabbatic years in the 
1260, these will sum up as follows, 325 added to 1260, 180, 180 
equals 1945. Again, Noah was building his ark 120 years. 
The time this ark began to be built in this land, was when 
Israel separated in the year 1821. If 120 be added to 1821, 
it is equal to 1941. Again, Job lived after his second lot of 
children were settled one hundred and forty years. This 
'.second lot of children began at the purchase of the second 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 137 

half of this continent in the year 1803-4. If to this 140 be 
added, it is equal to 1943-4. Thus it will be seen that all the 
measures of time agree with the fourteen generations yet 
lacking from the captivity to the crowning of Christ, as the 
second Adam " Lord of all." 

In the siege of Jerusalem, Ezekiel was commanded to 
lie 390 years upon one side and forty years upon the other. 
(A day is a year.) The three hundred and ninety days 
begins about the time Luther set aside the law of Eome con- 
cerning marriage and took a wife, and extends down to 
about 1944-5. The forty years has been twice fulfilled in 
this Israel. Once from Judah to Philadelphia for the first 
settlement of Israel, and once from Ephraim to Kaphtali 
for the second settlement. Perhaps it may be replied that 
this year 1944-5 does not complete the world's last chilaed of 
a thousand years. If it did, the teachings of Christ, con- 
cerning the shortening of the last days, for the elect's sake, 
would not be understood. Had not God cut short the last 
chilead, his own laws would have been driven out of the 
world. As it is, most persons think they are gone and will 
never return again. These will learn better at the time ap- 
pointed. God's witnesses are only dead for a little while. 
As the church is upon her feet, so the civil as given by 
Moses will rise again. Israel is murmuring about this 
Moses that has brought here into this wilderness. Let 
Israel hush complaining. Things may look a little fright- 
ful with the sea in front, and the mountains on either side, 
and an army in the rear, and the " pillow of fire and cloud" 
lighting up Israel's enemies. 'No marvel, that under these 
circumstances the Ham-an should think himself the one 
chosen to be honored by the king, and that it is his "mani- 
fest destiny " to exterminate Israel. The little queen has 
made her petition to the king in a week of prayer by all her 
poeple, and a day of fiisting. God speaks to Israel, "stand 
still." " An east wind " will divide the sea, at " The time 
appointed," "A Cyrus will be found to dry up the Euphrates. 
A Samson will tie the foxes tails with a fire brand between 
them." Could a voice as liumble as the writer's be heard in 
Israel, we would say, "stop your complaining." None but 
Noah, Daniel and Job will be left when God sends the 
SAVord in the land. Say your prayers and trust the God that 
sees and hears and knows all things. 

It would be a pleasure to the writer to accompany the 
reader through that seemingly mysterious prophecy of Ezek- 
iel, contained in his 38th and 39th chapters. This is a specific 
prophecy of a great civil war, in the latter days of the re- 
stored Japhetic Israel. We are prevented from this by 



138 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

these running outlines, which have already gone beyond 
their prescribed limits. From what has been said in the 
synopsis the intelligent reader can learn to read it for him- 
self. It will well repay the effort. 

We have now tracked God's symbolic characters from 
Adam and Eve, Cain and Seth, Shem and Japheth, down to 
the tribes in this south land. The double prophecy of Noah 
is the foundation for the double covenants with Abram and. 
Abra-IIam. The seed of the literal Jacob, as twelve tribes, 
are the types of the spiritual Jacob as twelve tribes, and 
also as the twelve aj^ostles. The question is before the 
reader, and is more worthy of his study than any other 
question the world has. 

Let us drop a word to the sons of Levi, or more proper- 
ly the sons of Aaron. " Called of God, as was Aaron." 
Preach God's word as he has given it. Do not mend it. It 
is the power of God to the salvation of the world. If thou 
lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. If it says, 
"There was a man of the land of Uz, whose name was Job," 
preach it that way. God will take care of results. If it 
says " there was a father that had two sons," preach it just 
that way. " Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, cry aloudy 
spare not." Tell every hairy Esau he must become not only 
smooth Jacob in body, but he must become " wrestling 
Israel in soul." Tell him he must "tremble exceedingly " 
to do this according to the type set by Isaac. If you daub 
with untempered mortar, for fear the refined or that the 
elite will leave you, you are not serving "the master," but 
are looking for your reward in this life. This was not the 
way your type, the servant of Abraham, who stands as "God 
the Father," acted when he was sent to bring a bride for 
Isaac. Never did man urge the claim of his master with 
more forcible arguments or with greater earnestness. JSToth- 
ing for himself; everything for his master. Take pattern^ 
my brethren. Take pattern : here is your model, given by 
God himself, of how you should plead for the master. 

Perhaps you may think an obscure, unlearned farmer 
has no right to address you thus. Pardon one of the hum- 
blest ones in God's creation. The light is so clear. The 
question is one of such eternal moment, that while we hold 
no orders, we are constrained to speak a little, and mean no 
offence. AYould you, as a reviewer, feel inclined to take us 
to task? Let the writer talk a little, and then he will 
thank you for doing so. It will do no good to use that very 
convenient argument, "He hath a devil," or he isderanged. 
Such an argument as this is strong evidence that, in the ab- 
sence of all others, this is the last resort. You need not ask, 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 139 

"Have any of the scribes of Pharisees believed on him?" 
We answer, No ; they have not been asked to believe. How 
can they believe before they have heard what the babbler 
would say? You need not complain of our grammar, or of 
a want of elegance in turning periods. AYe have endeavored 
to use the best language to convey thoughts at our command, 
and have hardly looked into a grammar for thirty years. 
You need not quote human authorities, except upon a mat- 
ter of History. In using human opinions as your standard, 
you contradict the declarations of the Book of God, that "no 
man, in heaven nor in earth, could unseal the Book." God 
himself had to do this with a nation. This nation is "the 
lion of Judah " among the nations of Japheth. Every tribe 
in this Judah is a talking prophet, and God has selected it 
himself as the "world's law-giver. Upon his shoulders the 
world's government will rest." This Judah is the " wonder- 
ful counsellor," to teach the divine will. Would you re- 
view and instruct the writer ? \ou must take God's types, 
and God'sprophets, and God's history as he fufills them, and 
come down to the work like a man in search of truth. If 
you will do this, and point out our defects, you will then find 
the writer one of the most ready learners and willing dis- 
ciples in all the land. Unless you can do this, you need not 
attempt it by any other means. Big thoughts, all round 
about, is what the writer loves. Tinsel and display will do 
very well in their place. When thoughts are small, there 
ought to be some substitute. Every blunderbuss known to 
the armory of war cannot batter down Gibraltar when 
charged with mustard seed. We are indifferent whether the 
reviewer's thoughts came (as the writer's) jostling along 
upon a dray, or whether, if the writer choose, they are 
roun-tired and flounced from head to heel, sparkling with 
diamonds and pearls, riding upon the dashing locomotive. 
It will make but little difference, if the thoughts be there, 
whether they fly as on eagles wings, or creep on all-fours. 
If you should attempt a review, and calculate that by high- 
sounding words, or by bringing up the antiquated o^^inions 
of those who never lived to see this day and time — those 
who never looked upon national Judah — it will be to no use. 
It may be that the humble writer is as well informed upon 
these points as his Avould-be reviewer. No lopping and 
pruning will answer the end. The writer admits, in ad- 
vance, a multitude of minor defects, about which he is, per- 
haps, too indifferent. You must dig up and exterminate, in 
order to overthrow. " Moses and the prophets " are our 
only guides. AVhile the means used in their fulfillment are 
not regarded as extraordinary, yet God has never left him- 



140 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

self without a witness. The results accoiEplished are more 
striking than any miracles addressed to the natural senses. 
These are a talking miracle. They will speak to the world, 
and not alone to the immediate beholder. 

Let us glance at the manner in which Grod, by ordinary 
means, works miracles in the gospel dispensation given to 
Japheth. Moses and Christ had denounced Jerusalem. Who 
shall bear witness to the truths these have uttered ? Is it a 
christian ? No; he is a biased witness. Is it a Eoman? He 
knows nothing of the denunciation and the laws of Israel. 
Who shall it be ? It is both the commanding general and 
the high priest of the literal Israel. Providentially was he 
preserved, that he might be an eyewitness to bear testimony 
in all things to the teachings of Christ and Moses. The 
preservation of Josephus, may not be regarded in the light 
of a miracle, yet none can read how it was done but will con- 
clude there was something wonderful in it. 

AYhen the time came for the seventh head of Pagan 
Eome to arise, it was Christian Constantino. Who can sit 
in judgment upon Constantino in reference to that cross in 
the heavens, and the voice he heard, ''By this conquer." 

The prophet John said this seventh head should come, 
and thus it came. The same prophet had said it would 
"continue a short space." Thus it was as Julian, the nephew 
of Constantino, apostatized from the Christian faith of his 
uncle. Again, Christ had said Jerusalem should not be re- 
built. The apostate Julian said it should. He was the 
Emperor of all Eome, who can hinder? Two tribes of 
Israel had once rebuilt the temple with opposeis from every 
quarter. None now stand to oppose the Eoman Emperor. 
Did he rebuild it? He did not. Why? Balls of fire burst- 
ing from the earth drove off his workmen. Any miracle 
in this? Nothing but the collected gas in the old rubbish, 
and the cavities of the former building. Any miracle about 
it? Nothing but Moses and the prophets. Look again. 
When the time came for the day to break, by bringing the 
" woman " out of her hidden place, two young men are 
walking the field and a flash of lightning kills one of them 
and sends the other to be a monk. In his lonely cell he 
finds the "woman." The world's light chained to a block. 
The world's only hope hidden in a dark place. Was that 
flash of lightning that sent Martin Luther into the convent 
a miracle? It was " Moses and the prophets." If Moses 
told how " the day would break," the prophets tell when it 
would be done. Look again. While Luther brings the 
woman from her hidden iplace to instruct the world, the 
Spanish Jesuit is preparing the whip of cords to drive Israel 



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in another quarter. If the teachings of that " woman," 
organized the gospel church in this land at Philadelphia on 
the 4th of July, 1773, it was the same year in which the 
Pope of Kome abolished the order of the Jesuits. " The be- 
ginning of one is the end of another." Look again, when 
the time came to cleanse the sanctuary at the end of 2300 
years, John Wesley is the chosen agent of G-od to do it. 
He was the son of an humble curate, out of a lot of eight 
children; when his father's house was on fire, he alone was in 
the upper story. Appearances indicate he must perish. Will 
he perish in the flames ? The eye of God is there. God has 
a special use for him and he shows the world, "I go where 
no man's building is." He will not be burnt up. Any 
miracle in it? No miracle, but Moses and the prophets. If 
Moses said one must rise and go into "Eed Esau's" land 
and return to ''wrestle with the angel," Daniel says, "The 
sanctuary of the heart shall be cleansed." If Wesley filled 
the literal act of Jacob, moving as " God the Holy Ghost," 
in the other ease he taught the doctrine of the Holy Ghost, 
" Sanctification is through the spirit and belief, in the word 
of God." 

As Eome, by her confessional, had broke up the service 
of the literal Ham as a servant of tribute, as God brings 
back the gospel of Christ, so he brings back the law of 
Moses. In drawing the line between Catholic Mary and 
Protestant Elizabeth, Elizabeth comes back to Moses. "Ca- 
naan shall serve Japheth," and is a negro-trader. No 
miracle. Nothing but Moses and the prophets. " In chains 
shall Ethiopia come over to thee, and they shall be thine" — 
Isaiah. When God draws the line of the church of gospel 
in this land, while the one w^ing held only one bishop, who 
was a non-slaveholder, as Bishop Andrew, God removed his 
beloved wife, and made him marry a slave-holding woman. 
Is this a miracle ? It is Moses and the prophets. " JSTot by 
power, nor by might, but by my spirit." God intends no 
disputers shall contend with him. Moses had said, Reuben 
should bring Benjamin. In order to its fulfillment, God had 
to remove Gen. Harrison. Moses had said, the scej^ter 
should leave National Judah when the head of the church 
came of the tribe of Judah. In order to its fulfillment, God 
removed Gea. Taylor. Are these acts, with hundreds of 
others, miracles? They are Moses and the prophets. "I 
will settle you after your old estates, and restore your presi- 
dents as at the first." Look, reader, look around you ; an 
overwhelming array of testimony meets your gaze, look 
which way you will. No need for one to come from the 
dead, and teach differently from Moses and the prophets. 



142 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

Were this possible, he could only be regarded as an evil 
spirit from Pluto's dark dominions, wandering to and fro in 
the earth to create evil among men. Will men believe ii? 
I>^ot till the time appointed. God will keep the veil over 
their faces till he finishes what he has undertaken. Grod has 
determined that " Days shall speak and the multitudes of 
years teach wisdom." These must turn the page as they 
move along for man's enlightenment. 

In this same sense was this great civil war in this land 
foreseen and laid down from the beginning. It was Lamech 
with a double work to do in slaying an " old man as the di- 
vine right of kings," and a "young man" as the divine 
equality of Ham with Shem and Japheth. 

It is vain for men to talk of peace, when there is no 
peace. There can be no peace only between the christians. 
Moses is one, Christ is the other. The civil man is Moses, 
the soul man is Christ. These are " the sons of Cod." This 
is the demonstrated truth of Cod in this land. It is an act 
of sovereignty alone upon the part of Cod to select the four 
hundred thousand slave-holders in this land to teach the 
world law and gospel. While the normal relation of Ham 
is that of a "servant of tribute,' Ham has a soul. Ham is 
unlike either Shem or Japheth, in that he has no religion. 
His religion is just that the superior brothers give him. He 
is ready to be circumcised with Shem, or take the gospel 
with Japheth, The supple cast of his nature throws the 
burden of his religion on Shem and Japheth. Cod will hold 
these to account about how they act towards Ham. He is 
an idiot in understanding the laws of Cod, yet he is in the 
image of Cod. In order that Shem and Japheth may bring 
him to the laws of Cod, it was necessary that they should 
control the physical man. Hence he is a " servant of ser- 
vants." In any other relation, he is a beast, and God can 
not hold Shem and Japheth responsible for him. 

Abra-Ham is the "possessor of heaven and earth," and 
•' Heir of the world," This is the decree of Cod. The Ham- 
man, or natural man, standing opposed to Abraham, contests 
every inch of the ground against God and his laws. The 
conflict is long and desperate, yet the issue is foretold. 
Egypt, Bab^don, Ham-an, all tell how it will end. God will 
show his word alone is " The tree of life." " Do to others as 
ye would they should do to you," with men, beasts, birds, all 
in their normal place, is the law of God. Man cannot change 
the ass to a horse, nor an ox to an ass. In the atonement of 
Christ, all are one. In the law of Moses, these are parent 
and child, husband and wife, master and servant, king and 
subject. 



THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 143 

As to whether the nesrro of this land was in truth the 
literal descendant of Ham, has no more to do with the ques- 
tion, than whether in very dead Abraham is "God the 
Father, and Isaac is God the Son, and Jacob is God the Holy 
Ghost." Each of these are the symbols of the things for 
which they stand. The literal man. for which the symbolic 
Ham stood had to come from Africa in the " last days," as 
the land of the assignment of the lot of Ham. From there 
he comes, and the negro, taken in a literal sense, is the man 
that would never cover a naked world with the laws of God 
for its government. 

Ham is the literal type of all men who follow the laws 
•of ^nature, and not the laws of God. As Ham is governed 
by his physical senses, so these are governed by physical 
laws. In either case that which is mostly prized is that 
which can be used by the physical man. Ham is in every 
sense of the word a cash workman. He must see a present 
benefit from a present action. He is alwa3"s like Ham-an, 
early in the court for fear some other claim will come up be- 
fore his. He has no trust or confidence beyond what he 
sees and feels. 

And now, my countrymen, North, South, East and 
West, the author of this humble work is nothing but an 
humble follower of the calling of Cain. He has never been 
set in any manner to enlighten the world upon anything. 
He was hardly out of sight of his humble home since he has 
had a being. He has not written to bring himself into 
notice. These thoughts may fall still-born upon the public 
mind till the time appointed. That God has a use for them, 
is a truth. God does not work for nou<>:ht. If he brings 
forth a nation to tell the world his laws, that nation will do 
it at the appointed time. If the laws of nature could have 
^'unsealed the book," it would have been done long ago. 
They have been traced from Adam by God's own symbols 
down to the tribes of this south land. The thoughts of the 
writer are more concerned about the duties of the underta- 
ken and the great hereafter, than about any notoriety he 
can receive from his fellow-men, either as being a disputer 
or as being wise. AVe love all men in all lands, whether 
they belong to Shem, Ham or Japheth. We are ready to 
help every one with that ability that God hath given us. 
We love our country, and have been taught to revere its 
laws. 

We have submitted to confiscations and thefts, and to 
more than these. We have not complained. We can sub- 
mit to any indignity in the way of further hardships and 
confiscations — these we can endure. We can submit to yield 



'•44 THE MYSTERY FINISHED. 

the life we hold, if God so require it, much as we desire life ;, 
much as we love our fellow-men, and country, and wife and 
children, and even life, we love the word of God more 
than these. We cannot willfully and knowingly take 
a "solemn oath" and take it falsely, which " God abhors," 
to help you say, that Ham is equal to Shem and Japheth. 
Excuse us, my countrymen, and we would plead for thou- 
sands of others in this land who follow the written laws of 
God. These would do the same thing if they lived in 
"Scandinavia or Australia." We do not believe that the 
God that made the world is jesting with his fellow creatures. 
He said Canaan should serve Shem and Japheth ; that he 
should be a '• servant of servants." We cannot bow to the 
Ham-7nan that says otherwise than this. We allow you to 
be as honest as we are, and believe you feel that you are 
doing " God service." We think you feel thus because you 
follow the laws of the " Nahash," or natural man or Ham- 
man. You honestly think the same concerning us. God 
will, in his own time and in his own way, settle the difference 
between us. In conclusion, we subscribe ourselves, what in 
truth we are, "not one " but the "voice of one." 

A YOICE. 



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